Azure Database for PostgreSQL is a Managed PostgreSQL database service for app developers that integrates the PostgreSQL community edition with Azure for scalability, high-availability, and your choice of languages and frameworks.
Customer Reviews
Kevin S.
Advanced user of Azure Database for PostgreSQLIt is PostgreSQL. I use it on-prem, so being able to use it in Azure provides commonality for me. It is managed so it takes that burden away from me. It performs well, can have read-replicas, so all is good. Priced reasonably and for those that only need what it offers, is a great way to save money over the alternatives like Managed SQL Server or Azure SQL, or even something like Oracle. While MySQL would be a similar option, I find I prefer PostgreSQL to MySQL for a number of reasons.
Working with clusters is not as seamless as AWS's Aurora/PostgreSQL. There is a Hyperscale (Citus) option but it is quite pricey. Something that auto-fails over to the read-replica that gets promoted to the writer would be nice.
Microsoft obviously prefers their many SQL Server offerings and so invests more there, and while that is expected, it would be nice if more was done on PostgreSQL, but that would make it more competitive with the SQL Server options.
Providing SaaS for my application using the same components as on-prem. No need to port to another DB or learn the intricacies of another, I can just use the support my application already has.
Application is a traditional RDBMS application with reasonably high transaction volumes. Customers increasingly want to have our software provided as Software as a Service and while we started on AWS, we have demand to offer it on Azure as well and the PostgreSQL support eases the migration.
What we are after is a standard RDBMS and use Aurora/PostgreSQL in AWS which provides HA with scale out readers that can be promoted to writer on the event the writer fails.
