Optimize Your AWS RDS Dev Environments With Neon Postgres

AWS RDS for PostgreSQ is the most widely-used hosted Postgres solution there is, so naturally we hear a lot from developers that use it. While it can be a solid offering, it’s quite lacking when it comes to developer experience, and doesn’t support modern developer workflows. We often hear of developers switching to Neon exactly for this reason, especially for their local environments.

In this article, we’ll dive into the specific challenges of developing on RDS and show you a solution we often recommend: using Neon for development, even when you must keep RDS as your production database.