Postgres, an open source database popular among data developers, is now available on the Amazon Web Services Inc. (AWS) cloud as a Database-as-a-Service (DBaaS) offering, EnterpriseDB announced today.

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AWS offers multiple options to host your databases serving OLTP workloads – host your own managed database on Amazon EC2 instances or use Amazon RDS managed by AWS. RDS manages high availability, ...

RDS supports Oracle, SQL Server, MySQL, PostgreSQL, and Aurora (AWS’ proprietary database in preview, which promises MySQL compatibility and five times the performance). It’s also easy to get good ...