Amazon RDS for PostgreSQL vs Amazon S3 vs Heroku Postgres

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Amazon RDS for PostgreSQL

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Amazon S3

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Heroku Postgres

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Pros of Amazon RDS for PostgreSQL
Pros of Amazon S3
Pros of Heroku Postgres
  • 25
    Easy setup, backup, monitoring
  • 13
    Geospatial support
  • 2
    Master-master replication using Multi-AZ instance
  • 590
    Reliable
  • 492
    Scalable
  • 456
    Cheap
  • 329
    Simple & easy
  • 83
    Many sdks
  • 30
    Logical
  • 13
    Easy Setup
  • 11
    REST API
  • 11
    1000+ POPs
  • 6
    Secure
  • 4
    Plug and play
  • 4
    Easy
  • 3
    Web UI for uploading files
  • 2
    Faster on response
  • 2
    Flexible
  • 2
    GDPR ready
  • 1
    Easy to use
  • 1
    Plug-gable
  • 1
    Easy integration with CloudFront
  • 29
    Easy to setup
  • 3
    Follower databases
  • 3
    Dataclips for sharing queries
  • 3
    Extremely reliable

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Cons of Amazon RDS for PostgreSQL
Cons of Amazon S3
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    • 7
      Permissions take some time to get right
    • 6
      Requires a credit card
    • 6
      Takes time/work to organize buckets & folders properly
    • 3
      Complex to set up
    • 2
      Super expensive

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    What is Amazon RDS for PostgreSQL?

    Amazon RDS manages complex and time-consuming administrative tasks such as PostgreSQL software installation and upgrades, storage management, replication for high availability and back-ups for disaster recovery. With just a few clicks in the AWS Management Console, you can deploy a PostgreSQL database with automatically configured database parameters for optimal performance. Amazon RDS for PostgreSQL database instances can be provisioned with either standard storage or Provisioned IOPS storage. Once provisioned, you can scale from 10GB to 3TB of storage and from 1,000 IOPS to 30,000 IOPS.

    What is Amazon S3?

    Amazon Simple Storage Service provides a fully redundant data storage infrastructure for storing and retrieving any amount of data, at any time, from anywhere on the web

    What is Heroku Postgres?

    Heroku Postgres provides a SQL database-as-a-service that lets you focus on building your application instead of messing around with database management.

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