If you run databases in the cloud, you know the trade-offs.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Hyperscalers offer extreme technical flexibility, to the point that there are no guardrails and you risk deploying combinations of resources and architectures that inadvertently create performance bottlenecks, and leave resources idle, on top of which they also hit you with hyper-complex and unintelligible pricing, high network egress fees, throttled IOPS and surprisingly expensive backup overages. On the other side, alternative cloud providers keep pricing simple, but they force you into rotten compromises that tie your compute, topology, backups and storage together. In some cases, if your database outgrows its disk space, you are forced to buy larger, more expensive compute, in order to get more storage, even if your CPU is idling. In other cases, you might also be forced to buy additional nodes just to get extended backups.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
We overhauled our Managed Database plans<\/a> for PostgreSQL and MySQL to fix both issues. Here is a breakdown of what changed and how it makes running resilient databases simpler and more affordable.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Relational databases live and die by memory availability and caching velocity. That\u2019s why our modular architecture pairs strict, balanced compute profiles (1:4 Standard and 1:8 Memory-Optimized) with flexible, bounded storage options.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Upgrading your entire compute tier just to get a few extra gigabytes of storage would be a waste of money. That\u2019s why with our new plans, we\u2019ve aimed to offer you the freedom to scale disk capacity independently, but with intelligent guardrails that protect system health:<\/p>\n\n\n\n The result is true architectural freedom, which allows you to scale your storage without changing your compute footprint and vice versa, all within built-in sanity boundaries.<\/p>\n\n\n\n We also organized our plans into three clear, industry-standard tiers:<\/p>\n\n\n\n Resilient high-availability clusters for less<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n Running a single database node in production is a risk, but setting up high-availability (HA) clusters is often too expensive for growing teams.<\/p>\n\n\n\n To make multi-node resiliency accessible early on, we introduced automatic bundle pricing for multi-node deployments:<\/p>\n\n\n\n Whether you are adding a secondary failover node or building a full three-node cluster, these built-in discounts lower the financial barrier to running production-grade infrastructure.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Hyperscaler invoices are notoriously hard to predict. Extended backup retention often ends up costing three to five times more than the base database instance itself.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Our updated plans introduce predictable, tiered pricing for 31-day compliance backups. You get a clear, flat rate for retention backups without dealing with variable math or sudden spikes on your monthly bill.<\/p>\n\n\n\nBalanced compute profiles with smart storage guardrails<\/h2>\n\n\n\n
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Predictable compliance backups and zero egress fees<\/h2>\n\n\n\n