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Postgres Plus Cloud Database vs Amazon Relational Database Service (Amazon RDS)

The Postgres Plus Cloud Database was announced early this year.

As I do not have a lot of experience on database clustering, I am wondering which one I should use. Can anyone give me a compare between Postgres Plus Cloud Database and Amazon RDS in terms of features, cost and maintenance?

The requirements for our applications are:

  1. high availability.
  2. There will be very low load for our application.

Thanks!

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leon Avatar asked Apr 09 '12 03:04

leon


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1 Answers

PostgreSQL is not (yet) supported by Amazon RDS. So it's not easy to answer your question.

In any case: Heroku could be an alternative to Postgres Plus Cloud Database.

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Stefan Avatar answered Oct 13 '22 02:10

Stefan