I saw AlloyDB is being promoted on Google cloud. https://cloud.google.com/products/alloydb?hl=en Price of it is cheaper than the PostgreSQL. Per this article [image] AlloyDB vs. self-managed PostgreSQL: a price-performance comparison | Google... Compared to self-managed PostgreSQL on …

I tested on Aurora when it launched the PostgreSQL compatibility and it worked pretty well back then, so I assume it will be the same here. That said, Discourse scales pretty well on a single managed PostgreSQL vertically, so I’m interested in how much activity you see that trying something like th…

Yeah.. that’s true.. The only incentive for us was the price seems to be a bit lower.

Our current one is this: vCPUs: 8 Memory: 64 GB SSD storage: 596 GB Enterprise Plus edition Data Cache is enabled (375 GB)

That’s enormous. How many active users do you serve?

On admin dashboard, daily participating user is about 2.5k. I ran this query with count and got 28k. [image] Data explorer query for all active users (Lurkers + Posters) Data & reporting This should give you every user that have either read whilst logged in o…

Did anybody tested AlloyDB on Google Cloud?

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Which instance type are you using for the GCP PostgreSQL instance?

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Did anybody tested AlloyDB on Google Cloud?

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