I just started on a project that will probably have no more than 100 customers, keeping track of basic accounting tasks. I'm now thinking about which database service I will use. Looking at the prices of AWS databases, it will cost me $30 per month just to host the smallest RDS instance in the region of my choice.<p>When starting out on smaller projects that are hosted in the cloud, which database and database hosting/provider do you use? What service do you think offers the best price to quality ratio?
MongoDB Atlas offers a fully managed M0 instance with 512MB of storage and shared RAM for free. You can choose among AWS, GCP or Azure and the region. I use this or the Firebase Firestore free tier.
I prefer Google Cloud, it is more expensive than Linode or DO, cheaper and easier than AWS.<p>You can use a fully managed Postgres for $30, maybe less. They charge based on the VM size.<p>Postgres is always a solid choice.