Did anybody tested AlloyDB on Google Cloud?

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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

I am wondering if anybody tried using this instead of PostgreSQL since Google claims that it is 100% PostgreSQL-compatible.

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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 this would make sense from a risk-reward perspective.

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Yeah.. that’s true..

The only incentive for us was the price seems to be a bit lower.

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

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Our current one is this:

vCPUs: 8

Memory: 64 GB

SSD storage: 596 GB

Enterprise Plus edition

Data Cache is enabled (375 GB)

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That’s enormous.

How many active users do you serve?

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On admin dashboard, daily participating user is about 2.5k.

I ran this query with count and got 28k.

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