[Heroku Postgres] [Grow on demand]: Pay for usage as it scales to meet your needs

[afawcett]

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Heroku Postgres

Tell us about what you're trying to solve. What challenges are you facing?

Elastic Postgres, automatically expands resources and cost in alignment with customer demand. Simplifies data growth by reacting to observed conditions, and automatically upgrading resources as the customers business demands it. Customers only pay for what they are using. No need to plan ahead for new data tiers. All the same values of Heroku Postgres but with no data restrictions and jarring upgrades to move to new tiers.

[afawcett]

Here is a slide we shared at Dreamforce recently.

[karlbecker]

This would be really nice to have, especially since some other Postgres hosts let us do this, too. Currently on Heroku Postgres, if we need more than 1.5TB of disk space, but don't need any additional CPU or RAM, we must pay at least $1500/month extra per database instance just to have 1.6TB to 2TB of disk space (the difference between a Standard 6 and Standard 7). If we have multiple read-only followers, we need to spend $1500 extra for each follower.

Considering hard drive space on AWS is pretty cheap per GB (much less than $1500/month for 500GB), this is an important feature to us.

Also, the slide says future - any estimate, even a rough one, on when this might be available to Heroku customers, either Enterprise or otherwise? Thanks!

Edit: I see this is in the "Researching" state currently, so I take that to mean there's likely no chance of this being shipped in general availability to Heroku in 2023. Is that a reasonable assumption?

I also think this is pretty much a duplicate of #60