What is IBM Cloud Databases for PostgreSQL?
IBM Cloud® Databases for PostgreSQL is a managed PostgreSQL database-as-a-service that lets teams spend more time building with high availability, backup orchestration, point-in-time-recovery (PITR) and read replica at the push of a button. PostgreSQL is an object-relational SQL database, complemented by powerful enhancements like indexable JSON, publish/subscribe functions and drivers. For a detailed look at the database, see PostgreSQL Explained.
Pricing
Pay-as-you-go hourly billing. Get a USD 200 credit when you create your account today.
| Disk | RAM | Backups | Virtual Processor Core | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Hourly rates | USD 0.58/GB | USD 5.00/GB | USD 0.03/GB | USD 30.00 |
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Use cases
Web and mobile apps
Build massively scalable enterprise applications that can handle millions of users.
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Business intelligence
Build sophisticated analytics applications or easily visualize and derive insights from your relational data.
Location and mapping
Handle geographic objects in Databases for PostgreSQL out of the box. For example, applications can perform customer cohort geolocation to deliver highly-targeted ad campaigns, offers and sales.
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Database consolidation
Move your existing databases to the IBM Cloud while consolidating license costs, retiring servers and cleaning up database sprawl.
Features
Fully managed PostgreSQL
PostgreSQL-as-a-service means IBM manages point-in-time backups, read replicas, logging, monitoring, scaling, hardware setup and software patching for you.
Highly available
Every PostgreSQL deployment is built as a highly available deployment that leverages multiple availability zones for a 99.99% SLA. Access is routed through a single endpoint for easy driver configuration and failover handling.
Advanced security
Data is encrypted at rest and in motion. Integration with IBM® Key Protect lets you bring your own encryption key for data at rest. Each deployment supports private networking, in-database auditing and IP allow-listing. The service is SOC 2 Type 2, PCI, HIPPA, and GDPR compliant.
Scale effortlessly
Scale disk and RAM independently to best fit your application requirements, or let auto-scaling functionality handle it. Add read replicas to your managed PostgreSQL deployments to offload traffic from your leader database for greater availability, business continuity and performance.
Automation aware
Go from whiteboard to production quickly with the management console, CLI and REST API. Integrate automatically with IBM Cloud Operator and Infrastructure-as-code tools like IBM Cloud Schematics.
Flexible options
Databases for PostgreSQL offers hourly billing. You can separately scale disk, RAM and vCPUs for each of your PostgreSQL deployments. There is no need to migrate instance classes to accommodate growth.
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