Definitely interesting how performance between different cloud DB services is so untransparent, similar to object storage [1]. Well, it wouldn't matter much with CSP lockin.<p>In addition to factors you can't control, maybe Digital Ocean has different Postgres params? I know MySQL for RDS has a bunch of knobs you should tune [2].<p>[1] <a href="https://dev.to/sachinkagarwal/public-cloud-object-store-performance-is-very-unequal-across-aws-s3-google-cloud-storage-and-azure-blob-storage-13do" rel="nofollow">https://dev.to/sachinkagarwal/public-cloud-object-store-perf...</a>
[2] <a href="https://aws.amazon.com/blogs/database/best-practices-for-configuring-parameters-for-amazon-rds-for-mysql-part-1-parameters-related-to-performance/" rel="nofollow">https://aws.amazon.com/blogs/database/best-practices-for-con...</a>