[willothy]

We support scaling to near-zero because of Aurora serverless, but we definitely are looking into other solutions that could be cheaper to run or self-hosted.

Some regional regulations (GDPR, etc.) require local and/or isolated hosting. Most companies indeed solve this with either a tenant id column, dedicated tenant databases or both. We want to simplify those architectures, and a proxy layer is exactly our idea there - we're working on a solution that handles connection pooling and routing to remove the need to cache connections on the client.