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Neon Serverless Postgres is a cloud-native, serverless, fully managed PostgreSQL database service jointly developed and managed by Microsoft and Neon as an Azure Native Integration. With Azure Native Integrations, you can easily provision, manage, and tightly integrate software and services from software development companies on Azure.
What is it used for?
Neon Serverless Postgres is designed for applications that require rapid scaling, cost optimization, and advanced development workflows.
Typical use cases include:
- Web and mobile applications with variable or unpredictable workloads
- Development and testing environments that benefit from database branching and instant restore
- Scenarios where developers need a fully managed PostgreSQL service with minimal operational overhead
- Data analytics and reporting applications that require high availability and performance without the complexity of managing database infrastructure.
- Applications that require a serverless database solution with automatic scaling and cost efficiency.
Key Features
The following features set Neon Serverless Postgres apart from traditional managed database services and support modern application development and operations:
- Scale-to-Zero: Automatically scales down to zero when not in use, reducing costs while maintaining instant availability when needed.
- Serverless Autoscaling: Automatically scales resources based on workload demands, ensuring optimal performance without manual intervention.
- Database Branching: Enables developers to create isolated copies of a database for testing or development without impacting production data.
- Instant Point-in-Time Restore: Allows rapid recovery of a database to a previous state for disaster recovery or testing purposes.
Subscribe to Neon
You can subscribe to the service through the Azure Marketplace online store or through the Azure portal. Search for it by name: Neon.
Subscribe from the Azure portal
Begin by signing in to the Azure portal.
In the Azure portal, on the service menu's global search bar, search for marketplace. In the Services results, select Marketplace.
The Azure Marketplace Get Started pane appears.
On the command bar, enter the name of the service in the Search the Marketplace search box.
In the search results, choose the provider.
Choose your preferred plan, and then select Subscribe.
The pane for creating a resource appears.