title: What is the smallest AWS EC2 instance I can run a postgres db on?
body: <p>There is the free tier on AWS and I can get a micro EC2 instance for free essentially.. or close to.. I'm sure setting up elastic ips - loads balancers etc is extra. </p>
  
  <p>Would it effectively be possible for me to run a postgres DB  - for a small api. Roughly about 50 inserts + 50 reads per second ... say about 6000 operations per min at the most. </p>
  
  <p>I can't seem to find anything online - which makes me think that this might be a silly idea. </p>
  
  <p>For this not to be an "open question" - it's simply:  Is it possible and realistic to expect usable performance on an EC2 instance running my postgres DB.</p>