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· 17 min · PostgreSQL

Managed Postgres, Examined: Amazon Aurora PostgreSQL

A photorealistic image of an elephant that is all the shades of the aurora borealis, standing in a nordic landscape.

Second in a series of dispassionate tours of managed PostgreSQL services. The first covered Amazon RDS for PostgreSQL. Aurora sits one tab over in the same AWS console and is architecturally unlike anything else on the list.

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· 13 min · PostgreSQL

Managed Postgres, Examined: Amazon RDS for PostgreSQL

A photorealistic image of a blue elephant wearing a tabord with the large letters "RDS" on the side.

First in a series of dispassionate surveys of the major managed-Postgres offerings. This post is about Amazon RDS for PostgreSQL — what AWS calls “traditional RDS,” as distinct from Aurora PostgreSQL, which is a separate product with a separate architecture and will get its own post.

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