Yeah, I’d imagine this will be cheaper than AWS RDS for low storage use cases (lack of fixed monthly compute costs wins out), but more expensive for high storage. Like quite cheap for a 10-100 GB DB, quite expensive for a 1-10 TB GB.
Though they do say:
> when we enable global read replication, you won’t have to pay extra for it, nor will replication multiply your storage consumption
With AWS you’ll have at least one read replica for failover, so $0.23/GB. And if you really want global read replicas, with AWS you might end up with something like a primary in North America and read replicas in South America, Europe and Asia. That would work out to $0.46/GB, so closes the gap a bit.
Depends if you do more compute than store data. I’ve been in a lot of analytical workloads running different types of reports besides your normal CRUD.
Though they do say:
> when we enable global read replication, you won’t have to pay extra for it, nor will replication multiply your storage consumption
With AWS you’ll have at least one read replica for failover, so $0.23/GB. And if you really want global read replicas, with AWS you might end up with something like a primary in North America and read replicas in South America, Europe and Asia. That would work out to $0.46/GB, so closes the gap a bit.