Amazon announced RDS (Relational Database Service) for PostgreSQL on Thursday, and that PostgreSQL is now available as a managed service on Amazon Web Services with as much as 3TB of storage, 20,000 IOPS and support for prime-availability.
Amazon RDS supports the core PostgreSQL database features, like PostGIS, free text indexing and search extensions.
Users can scale I/O operations to 30,000 IOPS per database instance. in accordance with Amazon, achieving “consistent, fast performance.”
Users can be capable of deploy production Postgre SQL apps using the multi-availability zone option, and Amazon says RDS will operate a synchronous stand-by replica with an automatic fail-over mechanism. It also supports cross-region snapshot copy operations.
“Since we launched Amazon RDS four years ago, a good number of enterprises and startups have adopted the service since it permits them to run familiar relational databases with none of the operational complexity of on-premise systems, at a substantially cheaper price,” said Raju Gulabani, Vice chairman of Database Services, AWS. “As mobile, web, social and geospatial applications proliferate, we’ve seen a gradual demand for PostgreSQL as a managed service. We’re pleased to bring the agility, manageability and value benefits of the Amazon RDS platform to PostgreSQL.”
“Thousands of enterprises place confidence in ArcGIS to construct rich geospatial applications that combine location data with business analytics,” said Marwa Mabrouk, Cloud and large Data Product Manager, ESRI Inc., which was testing Amazon RDS for PostgreSQL. “As our customers move their applications to the cloud, lots of them choose PostgreSQL. We’re serious about Amazon RDS for PostgreSQL because customers can discuss their business and never at the database administration. We predict Amazon RDS for PostgreSQL is understated to exploit, cost-effective and should enable ArcGIS developers to be more productive. We’re expecting expanding our usage.”
The product is out there everywhere in every Amazon Web Services region. More info here.