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by tomatowurst 1550 days ago
been curious as to what sort of savings you've been able to get with supabase because we are approaching a few thousand dollars to store a couple terabytes on DynamoDB

Thinking of buying a dedicated server from Hetzner to run Supabase on it instead but worried about latency. awful that we have to move away from AWS for this but with four/five dedicated servers in EU, US-West, US-East, Singapore and Tokyo, we could have a fixed monthly storage/database cost with some globalized latency (client would connect to whichever dedicated server is available).

we realize that we are at complete mercy of AWS as was expected but the database storage cost was a curveball, so much so that we are thinking of self-hosting database ourselves but seems like a daunting task of its own.

tldr: unpredictability and variability of storage size on Dynamodb is forcing us to explore a more reliable fixed cost solution via self-hosting and hardening our dedicated servers running Supabase.
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kiwicopple 1550 days ago
One thing to mention is that DynamoDb and Postgres are vastly different databases, so the migration won't be a simple "dump and restore".

You're right - it will be a daunting task, but one that only becomes more daunting the longer you wait. If you make the migration to Hertzner + self-hosting (even just to pure Postgres), I'm certain you will see huge savings. It's hard to give exact numbers without knowing your workload, but feel free to reach out if you want to step through the numbers. We're not one-eyed about Supabase, but we feel that Postgres is a solid choice for your core-OLTP workloads. We love seeing more businesses adopt it. It's good for the ecosystem, and good for open source in general

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tomatowurst 1550 days ago
Appreciate it, really think AWS dynamodb is not an option for those running a bootstrapped business and dealing with large amount of data anymore, guess I'm going to have to bite the bullet and just do more research on hardening dedicated servers ourselves. Really the security and peace of mind from relying on AWS was what we were paying for but the cost is too much as our data storage needs are exploding.

At this point I might even move off AWS Lambda somehow, its quite ironic, we do consulting to help businesses get on AWS but we are moving off it due to rising costs!

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DenseComet 1550 days ago
Take a look at ScyllaDB Alternator [1], which is API compatible with DynamoDB. Scylla also supports multiregion clusters, which should help with latency. I've not used alternator, but I've had a good experience with Scylla, and it might be worth looking into as a lower effort way to move off DynamoDB.

[1] https://www.scylladb.com/alternator/

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tomatowurst 1550 days ago
wow! didn't know this existed, so does this mean I can self-host and still keep my dynamodb api code?
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