A logistics company managing a multi-terabyte Postgres workload came to us after running into a common problem on AWS RDS:
Their RDS bill kept rising - not because of usage spikes, but because of what we call the RDS cost spiral.
- In RDS, every new region or environment means a full new instance
- Storage volumes can scale up but not down
- Compute must be provisioned for peak and paid for 24/7
- Backups rely on snapshots that get expensive at scale
Neon’s flexible architecture helps teams break this pattern.
By replacing full instances with lightweight branches, enabling autoscaling across environments, and restoring instantly with branching-based PITR, teams can scale Postgres efficiently, without the overhead baked into traditional serverful models.
