Fly Managed Postgres [Insultingly Overpriced 🤦♂️] #109
Description
Fly.io recently [finally!] announced/released Managed Postgres: https://fly.io/mpg
After half a decade of customers requesting it ... ⏳
Watch the intro: https://youtu.be/zB4JCMN6rwk
The features appear to be good and if they are reliable, fair enough. 👌
But the pricing is absurd. https://fly.io/docs/mpg
Between the instance cost and storage $0.28 per provisioned GB / month this feels extortionate.
Consider running a simple app on the lowest level "Basic";
With a modest 1GB RAM for the VMs and each of the instances in the PG cluster:
https://fly.io/calculator? $52/month
Scale it a little to 4GB RAM and the price jumps to $166/month:
But it's the "Production" workload pricing that really takes the mic. 🤦♂️