[lucideer]

> Could it be cheaper or faster? Probably

Ultimately, it depends on your stack & your bottlenecks. If you can afford to run slower queries then focusing your efforts elsewhere makes sense for you. We run ~25kqps average & mostly things are fine, but when on-call pages come in query performance is a common culprit. The time we've spent on that hasn't been significantly different to self-hosted persistence backends I've worked with (probably less time spent but far from orders of magnitudes - certainly not worthy of a bullet point in the "pros" column when costing application architectures.

[bastawhiz]

> query performance is a common culprit

But that almost certainly has to do with index use and configuration, not whether you're self hosting or not. RDS gives you essentially all of the same Postgres configuration options.