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AWS-native teams that need mature controls, VPC integration, and predictable production operations.

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Verdict

“AWS-native teams that need mature controls, VPC integration, and predictable production operations.”

AWS-native teams that need mature controls, VPC integration, and predictable production operations.

Pros

Why teams pick it

  • Best when paired with RDS Proxy or disciplined pooling.
  • Private networking, IAM, and predictable connectivity make this a conventional AWS pairing.
  • Mature RDS monitoring, slow query, and infra alerting integrations exist.
  • Conventional Postgres on AWS remains one of Prisma's most straightforward deployment targets.

Cons

Where it gives ground

  • Public-internet or cross-cloud access patterns add latency and networking complexity relative to same-cloud deployments.
  • RDS lacks first-class branching, making per-preview database workflows slower and more expensive.

Pricing

What the commercial model looks like

db.t4g.micro

$13 /mo

  • vcpu: 2
  • multi_az:
  • memory_gb: 1
  • storage_gb: billed separately
  • support_sla: standard aws

db.t4g.small

Most popular

$26 /mo

  • vcpu: 2
  • multi_az:
  • memory_gb: 2
  • storage_gb: billed separately
  • support_sla: standard aws

db.m6g.large Multi-AZ

$248 /mo

  • vcpu: 2
  • multi_az: true
  • memory_gb: 8
  • storage_gb: billed separately
  • backup_retention_days: 7

Enterprise

$1,500 /mo

  • support: Priority
  • seats: Unlimited

Key stats

The practical snapshot

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