<story><title>Amazon RDS now supports PostgreSQL 9.4.1</title><url>http://aws.amazon.com/about-aws/whats-new/2015/03/amazon-rds-for-postgresql-now-supports-94/</url><text></text></story><parent_chain><item><author>dankohn1</author><text>I was very unhappy to find that RDS does not support cross-region read replication for Postgres, only for MySQL. We had made a significant investment to migrate from MySQL to Postgres but are now having to back out a lot of changes, because we need that redundancy.&lt;p&gt;Postgres is widely acknowledged as the leading open source database. It&amp;#x27;s frustrating that it remains a second class citizen on AWS.&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://forums.aws.amazon.com/message.jspa?messageID=604244&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;forums.aws.amazon.com&amp;#x2F;message.jspa?messageID=604244&lt;/a&gt;</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>darkr</author><text>They only launched support for within-region read replicas back in November &amp;gt; &lt;a href=&quot;https://aws.amazon.com/blogs/aws/rds-postgres-read-replicas/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;aws.amazon.com&amp;#x2F;blogs&amp;#x2F;aws&amp;#x2F;rds-postgres-read-replicas&amp;#x2F;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;p&gt;Postgres is still comparatively new to AWS, whereas MySQL was one of the first (the first?) supported RDS engines way back in 2008&amp;#x2F;9 or thereabouts. I guess this is due in part to the relative latecoming of built-in streaming replication support in Postgres, it&amp;#x27;s only been since 9.0 that it&amp;#x27;s been a thing, and 9.1 that it&amp;#x27;s been production-ready, which coincides with it&amp;#x27;s rise in popularity over recent years (well, that and Oracle buying Sun..).&lt;p&gt;My money is on support for x-region replication being announced late this year; it&amp;#x27;s a feature I&amp;#x27;m interested in for sure.</text></comment>
<story><title>Amazon RDS now supports PostgreSQL 9.4.1</title><url>http://aws.amazon.com/about-aws/whats-new/2015/03/amazon-rds-for-postgresql-now-supports-94/</url><text></text></story><parent_chain><item><author>dankohn1</author><text>I was very unhappy to find that RDS does not support cross-region read replication for Postgres, only for MySQL. We had made a significant investment to migrate from MySQL to Postgres but are now having to back out a lot of changes, because we need that redundancy.&lt;p&gt;Postgres is widely acknowledged as the leading open source database. It&amp;#x27;s frustrating that it remains a second class citizen on AWS.&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://forums.aws.amazon.com/message.jspa?messageID=604244&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;forums.aws.amazon.com&amp;#x2F;message.jspa?messageID=604244&lt;/a&gt;</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>sciurus</author><text>Why not run your own Postgresql installations instead of relying on RDS?</text></comment>