Azure PostgreSQL Flexible Server

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Azure PostgreSQL Flexible Server

In this Azure article, we will discuss all about Azure PostgreSQL Flexible Server, its features, benefits, and many more.

Azure PostgreSQL Flexible Server

It is a fully managed database as a service that is highly scalable and can handle unexpected workloads with high performance. One of the great offerings.

Key Features of Azure PostgreSQL Flexible Server

There are many interesting features that Azure PostgreSQL Flexible Server provides but out of that, but below is the list of key features.

Flexible

It is flexible meaning, Allows the user to do some customization as per the user’s requirement.

Highly available

It is highly available and has up to 99.99% uptime SLA. So that your business won’t affect.

Auto Patching

You do not need to take any headaches as the server will do the patching of the operating system, hardware, etc automatically and the interesting part is it also provides you the provision to set your patching schedule on your own whenever you need based on your requirement.

Provision to stop/start server

Azure PostgreSQL Flexible Server provides you the provision to stop the server whenever you don’t need and the moment you stop the server, the billing is stopped. That helps you save a lot of costs. Again, when you need your server to be up and running, you can just start the server.

Auto Backups

The service creates the backups automatically and can be stored on your server at any time within the specified backup retention period.

Highly secure

This service is highly secure as it uses different advanced encryption modules like FIPS 140-2 and AES 256-bit cipher, etc. You can only access with the private IP addresses and you need VNet integration for full private access to the servers.

Built-in features for Monitoring and alerting

It provides you the built-in tools or services for monitoring and alerting. So that you can closely monitor the performance and work out accordingly for the best output. You have the provision to configure the alerts based on the user’s requirement.

Built-in connection pooler (PgBouncer)

Comes with PgBouncer, the connection pooler that can help you to easily connect to database servers from your applications.

Why choose Azure PostgreSQL Flexible Server?

  • Comes with easy Linux architecture.
  • High performance.
  • Lower Latency.
  • High availability.
  • Lower recovery time in case of any failure.
  • Cost savings with the stop/start server option.
  • Built-in connection pooler support.
  • Simple, easy to use, and developer friendly.

If you are interested in Azure PostgreSQL Flexible Server, you can create the Azure PostgreSQL Flexible Server now.

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Wrapping Up

In this article, we discussed all about Azure PostgreSQL Flexible Server. Its key features and benefits, etc. Now, it’s your turn to decide whether you wish to go with it or not based on your requirement. Thanks for reading this article !!!