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A slope chart comparing Postgres hosting costs across four models: self-managed on EC2 at $2,800 per month, managed RDS at $1,500, Aurora Serverless v2 at $900, and Supabase at $600, with a dotted AI agent optimization line showing a 25 percent reduction in each.

Postgres FinOps: from self-managed to serverless, what hosting actually costs

Running Postgres costs from $15 per month on RDS to tens of thousands self-managed. The three levers are right-sizing, storage tiering and connection pooling.

Lars Cornelissen · Aug 11, 2026