This is just patently false. Unless they were lying on the ground because they were exhausted from Covid and the bus ran them over, Covid would not appear on a death certificate as a co-morbidity.
FWIW, if you have to ask this question then perhaps the ~20-30% cost overhead of RDS is worth not having to handle the sysops layer? If you want to, Bitnami and others have AMIs on the marketplace that have various versions of PG installed: https://aws.amazon.com/marketplace/pp/B01LWIX1ZK?qid=1573152...
As someone who has gone through this for some 20 yrs, it's usually a faster commute to travel from Hoboken to pretty much anywhere along/south of the PATH line during peak hours (so 34th down to the southern tip of Manhattan) versus a starting point of the UES/UWS (which is where the comparable housing exists).
My commute from Hoboken to various startup locations in NYC was consistently ~45 minutes door to door, versus an hour for my friends on the UES/UWS.
https://leadstories.com/hoax-alert/2021/10/fact-check-cdc-do...
https://www.aamc.org/news-insights/how-are-covid-19-deaths-c...