This article matches my experience with RDS. Performance is just absolutey atrocious when even a docker container on my MacBook performs the same queries on the same dataset at 100x the speed.
M1 with 16gb of memory vs 16 vcpu Xeon with 128g, my laptop absolutey trounces it.
M1 with 16gb of memory vs 16 vcpu Xeon with 128g, my laptop absolutey trounces it.