It’s really not that hard, especially with an AI agent to help you. Running a Postgres server and a read replica in Hetzner with pgBackRest backing up to their S3 buckets and a cloud volume can be had for under 50€, has HA, PITR, 3-2-1 backups, and will carry you through your series A comfortably, with GDPR compliance built-in.

What does the equivalent RDS setup cost you?

▲

OrangeDelonge 4 hours ago | parent [-]

RDS gets you easy integration with the rest of the AWS services, which as a startup, you’re probably using quite a few of.

Also, if you are nickel and diming over expenses in the 50€ range, you’re probably at the wrong startup.

	▲	9dev 4 minutes ago \| parent [-]
		That was not quite the point I was making, which is that the equivalent RDS setup would come in at around ten times of that.