# How to reduce Postgres compute costs as you scale

DevFeed: [How to reduce Postgres compute costs as you scale](<https://devfeed.tech/articles/how-to-reduce-postgres-compute-costs-as-you-scale-5399.md>)

Original publisher: [Read original article](<https://neon.com/blog/how-to-reduce-postgres-compute-costs-as-you-scale>)

Author: Carlota Soto

Published: 2024-04-29T15:31:21Z

Content type: article

Language: en

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

Topics: [Amazon RDS](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/amazon-rds.md>), [Databases](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/databases.md>), [Amazon Web Services](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/aws.md>), [Availability](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/availability.md>), [autoscaling](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/autoscaling.md>)

Tags: [amazon-rds](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/amazon-rds.md>), [article](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/article.md>), [autoscaling](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/autoscaling.md>), [availability](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/availability.md>), [aws](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/aws.md>), [cloud](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/cloud.md>), [cost](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/cost.md>), [high-availability](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/high-availability.md>), [how-to](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/how-to.md>), [infra](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/infra.md>), [performance](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/performance.md>), [postgres](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/postgres.md>), [pricing](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/pricing.md>)

## AI overview

The article explains how to reduce Postgres compute costs as database demand grows. It focuses primarily on Amazon RDS, describing how instance size, on-demand versus reserved pricing, and single-AZ versus multi-AZ deployments affect compute bills. It also presents Neon's scale-to-zero and autoscaling capabilities as ways to pay for the compute resources actually used.

## Source excerpt

Reducing cloud costs is on everyone's mind. While storage prices continue to drop, fewer innovations have been made to reduce compute costs, even though compute typically consumes a larger chunk of the bill. That's why we've built Neon with scale to zero and autoscaling, so that...