Neon – Serverless, Fault-Tolerant, Branchable Postgres

Started using it a few days ago and so far so good.<p>I haven&#x27;t benchmark it yet, but overall my api response api response times have decreased from 1-2 seconds to &lt;1 second compared with the free tier aws RDS postgres DB.

&quot;Since its always going to take some amount of time to start a compute, we decided to (mostly) accept that the ongoing cost of keeping compute starts consistently fast across our entire fleet wasn’t something that we could do reliably: so we didn’t. Instead we’re (basically) always starting computes before anyone asks for them, and then when we get a request for a compute, we just take an “empty” compute, give it some configuration and… that’s it? You have a compute in a few hundred milliseconds.&quot;<p>That&#x27;s not a cold start anymore. You just made a warm instance pool. What a waste of time this was.

In this case, what’s the difference between “serverless” and “managed”

At scale the cost of data&#x2F;bandwitch seems very high.