# How AWS Customers Can Reduce Unnecessary Database Costs

DevFeed: [How AWS Customers Can Reduce Unnecessary Database Costs](<https://devfeed.tech/articles/you-are-overpaying-jeff-bezos-for-your-databases-and-the-things-he-does-with-that-extra-money-33711.md>)

Original publisher: [Read original article](<https://www.cs.cmu.edu/~pavlo/blog/2021/09/you-are-overpaying-jeff-bezos-for-your-databases.html>)

Author: Andy Pavlo

Published: 2021-09-30T04:00:00Z

Content type: opinion

Language: en

Sources: [Andy Pavlo - Carnegie Mellon University](<https://devfeed.tech/sources/andy-pavlo-carnegie-mellon-university.md>)

Topics: [Databases](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/databases.md>), [Amazon Web Services (AWS)](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/amazon-web-services-aws.md>), [Cloud](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/cloud.md>), [optimize](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/optimize.md>), [MySQL](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/mysql.md>), [PostgreSQL](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/postgresql.md>), [Benchmark](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/benchmark.md>)

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## AI overview

The article discusses how AWS customers may incur unnecessary database costs, particularly through unoptimized RDS instances and blindly increasing instance sizes. It explains the limits of vertical scaling and mentions a PostgreSQL RDS experiment using the TPC-C benchmark.

## Source excerpt

Andy discusses why Jeff Bezos's Amazon Web Services makes you overpay for your database management systems.