AWS RDS users often face inflated bills due to overprovisioned production databases and continuously running non-production environments, leading to substantial waste in computing resources. Many companies allocate more compute capacity than necessary to avoid performance issues, resulting in unused resources that drive costs up. A survey of developers revealed that a significant portion of production database capacity is only needed for a few hours daily, while non-production databases run continuously despite limited usage. This inefficiency can lead to thousands of dollars in unnecessary expenses each month. Neon, a managed Postgres provider, addresses this issue with a serverless platform that offers dynamic autoscaling for production databases and scale-to-zero functionality for non-production environments, ensuring that users only pay for the compute they actively use.