# Optimize your AWS RDS Dev Environments with Neon Postgres

DevFeed: [Optimize your AWS RDS Dev Environments with Neon Postgres](<https://devfeed.tech/articles/optimize-your-aws-rds-dev-environments-with-neon-postgres-5203.md>)

Original publisher: [Read original article](<https://neon.com/blog/development-environments-for-aws-rds-using-neon-postgres>)

Author: Brad Van Vugt

Published: 2024-07-16T12:24:14Z

Content type: article

Language: en

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

Topics: [RDS for PostgreSQL](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/rds-for-postgresql.md>), [Developer experience](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/developer-experience.md>), [PostgreSQL](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/postgresql.md>), [Databases](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/databases.md>), [Provisioning](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/provisioning.md>), [configuration](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/configuration.md>)

Tags: [aws](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/aws.md>), [configuration](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/configuration.md>), [developer-experience](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/developer-experience.md>), [development](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/development.md>), [infrastructure](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/infrastructure.md>), [pipelines](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/pipelines.md>), [postgresql](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/postgresql.md>), [product](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/product.md>), [provisioning](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/provisioning.md>), [rds-for-postgresql](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/rds-for-postgresql.md>)

## AI overview

The article explains why AWS RDS for PostgreSQL can be difficult and expensive to use for development, citing slow provisioning, complex configuration, weak support for shared team workflows, and data consistency challenges. It recommends using Neon for development while retaining RDS as the production database.

## Source excerpt

AWS RDS for PostgreSQL is the most widely-used hosted Postgres solution there is, so naturally we hear a lot from developers that use it. While it can be a solid offering, it's quite lacking when it comes to developer experience, and doesn't support modern developer workflows. We...