This article explores the challenges developers face when using AWS RDS for PostgreSQL in development environments, highlighting issues such as slow provisioning, complex data synchronization, and difficulty in supporting team workflows. It introduces Neon as a modern serverless Postgres solution that enhances development efficiency by offering rapid environment provisioning, seamless integration into CI/CD pipelines, and the ability to work with production-like data through database branching. Neon allows developers to create and manage databases swiftly, reducing costs by nearly 40% compared to RDS non-production environments, thanks to its scale-to-zero functionality and shared storage. The text is part of a series that provides guidance on optimizing development workflows using Neon while maintaining RDS for production, promising further insights into data syncing and deployment processes.