PostgreSQL performance and cost across 23 EC2 instance types
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Hey! I'm Andrei.I got frustrated by how people tend to build overcomplicated backend systems, being "motivated" by big tech case studies and popular books.So, I started exploring lean architecture, and building my digital garden of ideas, approaches and data that align with this direction.Here I want to present one of the tools – Sizing tool for PostgreSQL. I've benchmarked PostgreSQL on different EC2 instances and disks, with different initial data sets to see performance that these instances can give you. And I've built a tool to visualize this data, which I welcome you to explore.So, you can put your usual input parameters, like needed RPS and disk size as input, and find out which instance will be the most cost-efficient for your needs.You can read about the methodology here: https://postgres.saneengineer.com/aboutI've tested one workload – mixed 90/10 read/write, and only selected configurations. But it is extensible, and I (and you – benchmark is open source: https://github.com/anivaniuk/sanebench) can run more configurations to have more data represented.Does it look interesting? What workload should I benchmark next?
HN · launched Jul 7, 2026 · 97 upvotes (top 9%) · 0 views
Niche: database and infrastructure benchmarking tools · 18 launches, 1 in the last 7 days · Explore this niche →
Category and tags
- Horizontal
- Analytics & BI
- Developer
- Not AI
- Hobby / open-source project
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Could you build this?
Yes The site is an interactive frontend data visualizer and calculator showing pre-collected database benchmark numbers across EC2 instance types.
Discussion
20 comments analyzed.
Competitors mentioned: Aurora PostgreSQL, LSM-tree based databases, instances.vantage.sh, Azure database services, GCP database services
Concerns raised: Unclear terminology (requests vs queries vs rows), Limited instance type coverage (missing AMD M8a, R8a, C8a, Optimized Reads r8gd/m8gd), Doesn't account for SMT being off on recent AMD instances, Disk I/O and latency impact not measured, Huge pages and io2 impact not tested
Feature requests: Add info badges explaining terminology (RPS, latency, etc), Include AWS RDS PostgreSQL benchmarks, Test additional AMD instance types (M8a, R8a, C8a), Add Optimized Reads instances (r8gd, m8gd) with NVMe cache, Compare Aurora PostgreSQL vs self-hosted on same instance
Competitors
Other products that read as similar to this one : 229 launches clear the similarity bar, closest 8 shown.
Attention rank: #25 of 230 (itself plus its competitors, highest first, normalized so YC and Product Hunt are compared fairly).
Launched 251 days after the earliest competitor.
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