[Deadron]

Don't spin up 50 pods. You have outscaled your database. You can't make IO operations faster by throwing more workers at it and you can only have so many connections working at once. As a side note if your application is a typical IO bound web app its very unlikely you can process enough transactions to effectively use 50 workers in a single region.

[brazzy]

We're not necessarily talking about 50 pods for the same application, could also be a zoo of smaller low traffic applications sharing a Postgres instance.