Setting up Google Workspace is different from setting up a personal Gmail account. Your domain is likely registered with a provider like GoDaddy or Namecheap, and email traffic must be routed to Google’s servers.

Example scenario:

• Domain abc.ai registered with GoDaddy
• Cloudflare as DNS provider (optional but recommended for easier setup)
• Goal: Create Google Workspace emails like pavan@abc.ai

Setup Steps

1. Configure DNS Provider (Optional - Cloudflare)

If using Cloudflare, update nameservers on GoDaddy domain settings to point to Cloudflare nameservers (typically elias.ns.cloudflare.com and megan.ns.cloudflare.com).

After reducing the RDS size, I was eager to watch the reduction in monthly bill. Earlier, RDS was costing around $11/day and now it should have cost me $3/day. But after few days of monitoring, it did not budge below $7/day. On splitting the cost by usage type, some storage cost had increased for RDS. On inspecting, I found that this was due to the snapshots that I had created before deleting the previous RDS instance. AWS provides free storage only upto the size of RDS (200GB in my case). But the previous snapshots were of 2TB. Hence, they were beyond free storage and were costing around $4/day. On deleting these snapshots, the RDS bill had come down to the expected value of $3/day.

So, when we found out the root cause for memory full the next step was to reduce the storage. After cleaning up the replication slot, WAL size had come down drastically. Now, 3GB storage was enough to hold current databases. But we were still paying for 2TB usage. So, we had to downscale RDS to reduce monthly bill.

Upscaling is easier in AWS and downscaling is equally tedious. RDS Storage are based on EBS volume which only expand and don’t allow shrinking. To upscale, it is just one click job (increase storage) but to downscale you need to create another database and switch traffic to that. In current setup, Blue-Green deployment provided by AWS seemed most convenient option (compared to DMS, or restore from storage).