[mthomassen]

Not parent, but at {work} we made a similar move, from Azure managed postgres to self-managed postgres.

I elaborated a litle on why here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24607664

but boils down to; - enormous performance difference - advanced/fine grained user roles (+default permissions, not settable without superuser) - use of extensions (productivity boosts for us come from; Oracle FDW, TDS FDS, TimescaleDB) - private network endpoints - lower cost