# Learn How to Use Neon with AWS RDS to Boost Development Velocity in Postgres

DevFeed: [Learn How to Use Neon with AWS RDS to Boost Development Velocity in Postgres](<https://devfeed.tech/articles/learn-how-to-use-neon-with-aws-rds-to-boost-development-velocity-in-postgres-5021.md>)

Original publisher: [Read original article](<https://neon.com/blog/aws-workshop-neon-dev-rds>)

Author: Savannah Longoria

Published: 2025-01-29T18:01:36Z

Content type: tutorial

Language: en

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

Topics: [Amazon Web Services](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/aws.md>), [Development](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/development.md>), [CI/CD](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/cicd.md>), [Testing](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/testing.md>), [Database](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/database.md>), [Pull Request](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/pull-request.md>), [API](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/api.md>), [Provisioning](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/provisioning.md>)

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## AI overview

This tutorial explains how to use Neon as a Postgres development environment alongside AWS RDS for production. It covers database branching, ephemeral environments for pull requests and testing, CI/CD automation, isolated developer environments, and automatic scale-to-zero to reduce compute costs.

## Source excerpt

AWS workshops are a fantastic free resource created by the AWS team to help you tackle real-world challenges using AWS infrastructure. As an AWS Partner, we'll be launching an AWS workshop to teach you how to use Neon as a development environment while keeping production workload...