Fly Managed Postgres [Insultingly Overpriced 🤦‍♂️]

Fly.io recently [_finally!_] announced/released **Managed Postgres**: https://fly.io/mpg
After half a decade of customers requesting it ... ⏳

Watch the intro: https://youtu.be/zB4JCMN6rwk

The _features_ appear to be good and if they are _reliable_, fair enough. 👌
But the pricing is _absurd_. https://fly.io/docs/mpg

Between the instance cost and storage **$0.28 per provisioned GB / month** this feels ***extortionate***.
Consider running a simple app on the lowest level "**Basic**";
With a _modest_ **`1GB RAM`** for the VMs and each of the instances in the PG cluster:

[https://fly.io/calculator?](https://fly.io/calculator?f=s&b=fra.100&a=no_none&m=0_0_0_0_0&r=shared_0_1_fra&t=10_100_5&u=0_1_100&g=1_shared_730_2_1000_fra_0_0~1_shared_730_3_1000_fra_0_40) **`$52/month`**

Scale it a little to **`4GB RAM`** and the price jumps to **`$166/month`**:

But it's the "Production" workload pricing that really takes the mic. 🤦‍♂️