[PixelPusher]

We came across this issue as well, we'd been wasting too much time setting up Postgres. RDS seemed liked a good choice, except that MySQL is just that much worse than Postgres. We had just used things like concurrent indexes.

We ended up going with Heroku's hosted Postgres solution. It costs the exact same we were spending w/ two High CPU instances w/ provisioned IOPS volumes. Now we get fully managed, same price, and all the features of Postgres.

We still host our full application on AWS, the only thing is that we have a managed database. While Postgres makes it easy to setup replication and what not, AWS hardware just sucks. It takes time to properly tune it.

[dmishe]

What tier of postgres do you use? How's performance?