# Is your AWS RDS bill bloated?

DevFeed: [Is your AWS RDS bill bloated?](<https://devfeed.tech/articles/is-your-aws-rds-bill-bloated-5474.md>)

Original publisher: [Read original article](<https://neon.com/blog/is-your-aws-rds-bill-bloated>)

Author: Carlota Soto

Published: 2024-09-25T19:46:25Z

Content type: article

Language: en

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

Topics: [Amazon Web Services](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/aws.md>), [Databases](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/databases.md>), [Database](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/database.md>), [cloud-infrastructure](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/cloud-infrastructure.md>)

Tags: [aws](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/aws.md>), [capacity](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/capacity.md>), [company](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/company.md>), [compute](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/compute.md>), [database](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/database.md>), [databases](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/databases.md>), [devops](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/devops.md>), [relational-databases](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/relational-databases.md>)

## AI overview

The article examines why AWS RDS database bills become unnecessarily high. It attributes the cost primarily to overprovisioned production databases and development or test environments that remain provisioned continuously despite limited usage. Survey results indicate that many teams use allocated compute capacity for only part of the day while maintaining multiple, relatively large non-production databases.

## Source excerpt

"We definitely were wasting money in unused compute. We could have used burstable instances, we could have shut down servers at night--but the pressures of the daily tasks never gave us the time to get to it" (Director of Sofware Engineering) We see this all the time: companies us...