Announcing General Availability of pgEdge Cloud Enterprise Edition

pgEdge has officially launched the pgEdge Cloud Enterprise Edition, the first fully distributed Database-as-a-Service (DBaaS) built on PostgreSQL. pgEdge Cloud is designed for businesses that need to distribute their database workloads across multiple cloud regions while ensuring high availability, low latency, and compliance with data residency requirements.

Built for Multi-Region, Multi-Cloud Environments

pgEdge Cloud Enterprise Edition is a robust, fully managed cloud solution. Built on top of pgEdge Distributed PostgreSQL, pgEdge Cloud is optimized for applications requiring distributed database nodes deployed in AWS, Google Cloud, and Microsoft Azure. This distributed multi-master architecture allows enterprises to scale their databases across regions seamlessly while ensuring resilience, low latency data access  and flexibility.

Advanced Features for Enterprise-Grade Applications

pgEdge Cloud is built on the recently enhanced pgEdge Platform "Constellation" release, which introduced advanced features like Postgres logical replication with parallel processing, large object support, and improved error handling. These features, now available in the cloud edition, are ideal for globally distributed, mission-critical applications where performance and availability are paramount.

Enterprise-grade features include:

• Active-Active Replication: pgEdge Cloud's multi-master architecture enables active-active replication, where both read and write operations are processed on distributed nodes. It includes conflict resolution and automated DDL replication, ensuring seamless database synchronization across nodes.

• Dynamic Cluster Management: pgEdge Cloud allows users to dynamically add or remove nodes in their clusters, making it easier to scale up or down based on application demands.

• Latency-Based Routing: To minimize data latency and improve performance, pgEdge routes users to the nearest available database node, ensuring low latency and fault tolerance in case of regional failures.

• Bring Your Own Cloud (BYO): pgEdge Cloud is deployed into the customer’s own cloud provider accounts, leveraging the organization’s existing security tooling, compliance frameworks, and enterprise discounts.

Enhanced Security and Simplified Deployment

pgEdge Cloud Enterprise Edition simplifies security and deployment, offering multiple tools and interfaces:

• Visual Interface and API Support: Users can manage their pgEdge Cloud deployments through an intuitive UI or programmatically through a REST API or infrastructure-as-code (IaC) tools like Terraform and Pulumi. This makes it easy to integrate pgEdge Cloud into existing CI/CD pipelines for automated provisioning.

• Consistent Configuration Across Regions: pgEdge ensures that secure configurations are deployed consistently across all database nodes and regions, minimizing the risks of misconfigurations.

Reliable Backup and Monitoring Capabilities

Data backup and monitoring are core components of the pgEdge Cloud offering. Key capabilities include:

• Backup & Recovery: pgEdge Cloud offers Point-In-Time Recovery (PITR) using pgBackRest, customizable backup repositories, and the ability to restore databases across multiple nodes. These backups can be stored in Amazon S3, Google Cloud Storage, or Azure Blob Storage, and users can schedule backups on a per-node basis.

• Cluster & Database Metrics: pgEdge Cloud provides detailed metrics for database and replication performance, with support for integrations like AWS Cloudwatch and Prometheus for monitoring and alerts.

Advantages of a Managed Cloud Service

By offering pgEdge Cloud as a fully managed service, enterprises can benefit from automated software upgrades and backups, ensuring business continuity without manual intervention. The managed service is backed by enterprise-grade Service Level Agreements (SLAs).