What Enterprises like about Azure Database for PostgreSQL - Flexible Server
summary
Claims a 62% on-prem to Azure cost reduction and up to 84% with modernization, with storage reaching Premium SSDv2 (4.5× faster, up to 64 TB, 80k IOPS and 1200 MB/s at 160 GB). Describes near‑zero downtime scaling under 20 seconds, zone‑redundant HA with zero data loss, geo backups (RPO ~1 hour) plus read replicas and Multi‑Region Disaster Recovery, Entra ID and CMK for security, pgvector plus the azure_ai extension to generate embeddings via Azure OpenAI, and the In-Place Major Version Upgrade used by 5,000+ customers.
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chapters (9)
- 0:00Intro
- 1:12Why PostgreSQL?
- 4:10Benefits of Azure Database for PostgreSQL
- 5:52High Availability & Disaster Recovery
- 8:45Near zero-downtime scaling
- 17:09AI-enabled
- 20:44Security & Connectivity
- 22:29Monitoring & Observability
- 24:41Resources
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