Heroku PostgreSQL vs. AWS RDS PostgreSQL from Codeship

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http://blog.codeship.com/heroku-postgresql-versus-amazon-rds-postgresql/

[mangeletti]

This comparison's price section doesn't make any sense. How about this instead:

Heroku:

    Single-AZ is $750/mo - 15GB
    Multi-AZ is $1,200/mo - 15GB

Amazon

    Single-AZ is $284.7/mo - 15GB/4vCPU
    Multi-AZ is $569.4/mo - 15GB/4vCPU

In simpler terms, Heroku is more than double the price.

[brightball → mangeletti]

You're only comparing the Amazon instance cost with Heroku's full bundled cost. The article is including provisioned storage, IOPs, backups and data transfer - all factors in AWS pricing - to the included levels with that Heroku tier. AWS comes in around $1,156/month on demand when equivalently compared to everything in the $1,200 Heroku plan.

If AWS pricing was that simple, the comparison would be a whole lot more straightforward.