Escaping the AWS RDS Cost Spiral

T1Covered by 1 source · first reported by Databricks / ClickHouse / DuckDB / Supabase / Neon / PlanetScale at 23 May 2025, 18:16 UTC

If you look at RDS pricing, everything looks quite affordable (storage, compute, backups) – so how are so many teams spending six figures on it? Usage is part of the story, of course, but those bills are also very inflated. At scale, there’s more going on. Scaling a database does...