Amazon RDS now supports PostgreSQL 9.6.1

I'm fairly impressed by RDS's turn around time. 9.6 dropped in late September and they're already supporting it in just over a month. I wish Google Cloud SQL supported Postgres at all. Sad that there's limited competition in managed postgres space (most notable competitor being Heroku).

And is it HIPAA certified yet? Because the lack of that is what made me spend a week porting a project to use RDS&#x2F;MySQL just a little while ago. We&#x27;ve been told it&#x27;s coming Real Soon Now since last year.<p>I wanted to use PostgreSQL for a whole host of reasons, but not so much that we wanted to certify our own instances.

Does anyone else have abysmal IO performance on postgres RDS? I have a 200 gb provisioned ssd with 2000 iops and get abysmal bulk read performance - the panel will report 30 mb&#x2F;s and query speed is really slow with disk being the bottleneck

Now they just need to support the Foreign Data Wrapper extension with egress connections. Really wish that was built in because FDW itself is amazing, and AWS RDS is easy to manage.

This happened a couple days ago, noticed when spinning up a new RDS instance.<p>I&#x27;m super excited about it. It&#x27;s great to have more modern managed services on AWS especially since this brings Postgres out of the Stone Age. Lots of good JSON support added in 9.5 and 9.6.<p>Previously only 9.4 was available.

I upgraded - took &lt;10mins and also upgraded instance types. One slow query (that parallelizes) is 3x faster with no SQL changes or new indices.

On a slightly tangential topic, what is Amazon doing with aurora?

What&#x27;s the performance of Amazon RDS like with Postgres? (Curious, never having used it).

Out of interest, do Amazon send anything upstream to the pg team?

How does this compare to Heroku PostgreSQL?<p>It seems to be that it&#x27;s cheaper but it&#x27;s hard to compare without knowing what the Heroku instances are.

are there any other companies out there that provide hosting with multi-regional failovers? i love RDS and it&#x27;s fine for mission critical stuffs but sometimes i just don&#x27;t want to fork so much money on smaller projects and need an alternative.

Anyone using Amazon RDS in production and satisfied?

I wish Azure would launch hosted Postgres.

Does this indicate if it will include a REST API to build some quick applications off of or is it easier to return a JSON from a query?