# How SMASHSEND Cut Costs by 95% by Moving from RDS to Neon

DevFeed: [How SMASHSEND Cut Costs by 95% by Moving from RDS to Neon](<https://devfeed.tech/articles/how-smashsend-cut-costs-by-95-by-moving-from-rds-to-neon-5795.md>)

Original publisher: [Read original article](<https://neon.com/blog/smashsend-from-rds-to-neon>)

Author: Carlota Soto

Published: 2025-06-03T16:43:54Z

Content type: article

Language: en

Sources: [Blog -- Neon Docs](<https://devfeed.tech/sources/blog-neon-docs.md>)

Topics: [Database](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/database.md>), [Serverless](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/serverless.md>), [Amazon Web Services](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/aws.md>), [App](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/app.md>), [Artificial Intelligence](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/ai.md>)

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## AI overview

SMASHSEND moved its bursty Postgres workload from AWS RDS to Neon, reporting a reduction in database costs from $1,500 to $70 per month. The article describes how built-in connection pooling addressed background job failures and how branching supported safer testing, while RDS created cost, connection, configuration, networking, and environment-management challenges.

## Source excerpt

"We moved from AWS RDS to Neon in literally hours, and the benefits have already been massive. Built-in pooling fixed our background job failures, branching lets us test safely, and we cut our database bill from $1,500 to $70 a month" (Jorge Ferreiro, Founder of SMASHSEND) SMASHS...