Aiven brings easy, powerful hosted PostgreSQL to Microsoft Azure

Posted on 2016-09-15 by Aiven

Helsinki, Finland — September 15, 2016 — Aiven brings easy, powerful hosted PostgreSQL to Microsoft Azure

Aiven adds service availability for nineteen new cloud regions from the Microsoft Azure cloud, making Aiven the cloud database provider with the widest geographic availability in the world. Microsoft Azure is a leading global cloud provider and what makes them special is their high number of data centers around the world, currently totaling 30+ regions.

Aiven PostgreSQL is an easy-to-use Database-as-a-Service (DBaaS) offering providing Highly Available service plans with advanced features. Aiven PostgreSQL backups are automatic and zero-downtime database plan upgrades allow easy upgrades from single-node starter plans to a geo-replicated premium setups. Database services can even be migrated between different cloud providers with no downtime. Aiven PostgreSQL plans include all of the most popular PostgreSQL extensions such as PLv8 and PostGIS. All Aiven services keep your data safe and encrypted at all times, both in transit and at rest.

The first batch of new Azure cloud regions that are immediately available are all from North America and Europe. Asian and South American regions will be made available in the upcoming weeks.

The new Aiven Azure regions that are immediately available:

  • United States: Iowa (Central US), Virginia (East US), Virginia (East US 2), Illinois (North Central US), Texas (South Central US), California (West US), Washington (West US 2), Wyoming (West Central US)
  • Europe: Ireland (North Europe), Netherlands (West Europe), England (UK South), Wales (UK West)
  • Canada: Ontario (Canada Central), Quebec (Canada East)

 

The following regions will become available in the upcoming weeks:

  • South America: Brazil (Brazil South)
  • Asia: Hong Kong (East Asia), Singapore (Southeast Asia), Japan (Japan East), Japan (Japan West)

 

New services can be launched in the new Azure regions today and using Aiven's zero-downtime migration, it is also possible to easily migrate your existing services to Microsoft Azure.

About Aiven

Aiven is a Finnish, Helsinki-based cloud technology startup company focusing on delivering easy to use, yet technically advanced cloud database services to companies around the world. Aiven offers hosted PostgreSQL, Elasticsearch, Apache Kafka, Redis and InfluxDB services on five different cloud providers: Amazon Web Services, Google Cloud, DigitalOcean, UpCloud and Microsoft Azure.

https://aiven.io/

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