Today, modern businesses are increasingly deploying applications in the cloud, including open source Postgres databases, because it offers flexibility, reliability and agility. Running EDB Postgres Distributed on BigAnimal now provides unsurpassed high availability for your Postgres applications in the cloud. EDB’s recent webinar, “Geo-Distributed Databases and Disaster Recovery for Postgres in the Cloud with BigAnimal,” walks through these new capabilities and how to take advantage of them. Natalia Wojcik, Senior Product Manager, joined Aaron Sonntag, Senior Software Development Engineer, to show how easy it is to deploy BigAnimal, including a demo and technical overview of how you can take advantage of it.

Database technology represents just one tool you need as a developer to create a software application. But you shouldn’t be expected to become a database expert to deliver that application. That’s not always possible since databases, even open source solutions like Postgres, require time and expertise to configure, deploy, manage and adjust for more complex situations involving high availability or geo-distributed considerations.

Businesses see the numerous benefits of running open-source Postgres in the cloud—like improved agility, scalability, ease of use, and cost savings. They plan to modernize their tech stacks and applications in the cloud to drive innovation. So, the biggest question for many businesses isn’t if they should move their databases to the cloud

In our recent “Running Postgres in the Cloud” webinar, EDB Senior Client Engineer Tom Rieger helped attendees better understand the factors in maximizing Postgres database performance on today’s cloud service provider (CSP) environments. During his time at EDB, Tom has identified how clients can realize better Oracle-compatible Postgres performance and decrease costs on AWS, Microsoft Azure, and...

In announcing our latest EDB BigAnimal release today, EDB brings best-in-class high availability to Postgres databases running on any cloud. With this release, enterprises can successfully deploy geo-distributed architectures for their Postgres databases.

EDB has heard one frequent customer request loud and clear: there is a high premium placed on alignment with multi-cloud strategies, and that applies to both independent software vendors looking to meet client demands and enterprises looking for flexibility in meeting their application development needs.

EDB has been in the Postgres game for nearly 20 years, and since then, customer expectations around Postgres migrations have evolved. Today’s development teams require quick and seamless migrations to Postgres databases in the cloud—either our cloud account or their own cloud —and there are a number of ways we’re helping customers achieve these goals and experience the full power of cloud environments.

At EDB, we understand that Database-as-a Service (SaaS) goes beyond just providing fully managed PostgreSQL. It's about creating an all-inclusive experience that ensures you can rely on the vendor for database administration—everything from handling day-to-day operations, such as disaster recovery, high availability, and upgrades, to providing expert support services. Introducing EDB BigAnimal...

Organizations who use their Postgres databases to run serious workloads need to look for the right expertise for each piece of their solution—someone to look after their fully managed database as a service and someone else to ensure that the cloud infrastructure keeps running smoothly.