True, but since they sit on AWS, you can just use Amazon RDS with your Heroku ap...

jshen · on Oct 6, 2011

Which starts around $80/month. There is still a hole there.

riffraff · on Oct 6, 2011

but a reserved instance for a year is $227, which is not far from $15 a month.

jbarham · on Oct 7, 2011

This is misleading.

The reservation fee for a small instance is $227.50 annually (http://aws.amazon.com/ec2/pricing/) but you still pay an hourly rate to run it, albeit a lower rate than for a non-reserved instance. Running a small reserved instance for a year costs $227.50 + ($0.03 x 24 x 365) => $490.3/year or $40.86/month. (This is in the US East region.)

riffraff · on Oct 7, 2011

oops, of course, sorry for this

jshen · on Oct 6, 2011

Thanks, I missed the reserved instances somehow.

dangrossman · on Oct 7, 2011

The $227 buys you a lower hourly rate, it doesn't buy you use of an instance for a year.