[brunkerhart]

The answer depends on where you would like to spend your time on. If you believe your customers will be yours because yourygreat at operating poatgress datbase - do it, if your value in something else, go with AWS RDs postgress. Younwill save a ton of time in exchange of delegating database management to aws. Use this time to develop features your customera are looking for. If you would like to leave aws eventually it still be the same postgress that you can run anywhere you like

[vidarh]

I love RDS, but it really does not save all that much time beyond initial setup that's trivially contracted out. A low retainer to someone who knows how to do this will be far cheaper than RDS. By all means use RDS when you can justify the cost - if it's a rounding error of your total cost base there's no point finding someone to do a proper setup. But it doesn't all that large or complex a setup before there are huge savings to make even at inflated contractor rates from having someone manage it for you. More so if you do it outside of AWS entirely, though.