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A naive question on RDS: TimescaleDB acts as a postgres extension. As an AWS user, can I install TimescaleDB as a postgres extension on AWS RDS for postgres?

yuyang
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TimescaleDB is not available through AWS RDS.

Further, TimescaleDB's licensing [0] means that Amazon cannot offer the "community" version of TimescaleDB that includes many of its advanced features. Timescale (the company) does offer a fully-managed cloud on AWS, however. [1]

(Timescale person here)

[0] https://blog.timescale.com/blog/building-open-source-business-in-cloud-era-v2/

[1] https://www.timescale.com/products

Mike Freedman
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  • Thank you Mike! My question is more about the feasibility of installing TimescaleDB extension on AWS RDS. Is this feasible? – yuyang May 26 '21 at 22:27
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    AWS RDS does not allow you to "install" extensions yourself; the only ones are available are those that come pre-installed. – Mike Freedman May 27 '21 at 02:49
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We tried the same thing, then realized timescale db is not within the list of available extensions in RDS.

Though we did manage to do it within a self hosted version of psql via ec2.

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