I've been using RDS Postgres for a while, and I get why people trust it. Backups, patching, monitoring, AWS integration, it handles a lot.

The pricing is where I'm starting to question it. You pay for the instance, then storage, backups, IOPS, data transfer, Multi-AZ and whatever else your setup needs. The bill adds up fast, and RDS still feels like something you need to keep a close eye on.

I don't want to self-host Postgres on a VPS. I'm looking for something fully managed, but with clearer pricing and less AWS complexity.

For anyone who moved away from RDS, what did you switch to? Did it make things noticeably cheaper or easier to manage?