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by _1tem 412 days ago
Even managed databases are a scam. You can easily get 10x cheaper pricing for the same workload, by, wait for it, installing Postgres yourself on a baremetal machine. Plus you get much better performance, no noisy neighbors, and ability to actually control and measure low level performance. I never got the hype for serverless. Why are people so allergic to setting up a server? It takes a few hours a year of investment, and the performance benefits are huge.
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> Even managed databases are a scam

Just because you don't derive value out of something doesn't mean it is a scam.