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Replacing EBS and Rethinking Postgres Storage from First Principles


Category: All posts Oct 29, 2025 Posted by Mike Freedman Samuel Gichohi Fluid Storage is a new next-generation storage architecture: a distributed block layer that reimagines systems like EBS, combining zero-copy forks, true elasticity, and synchronous replication. Because it operates at the block layer, Fluid Storage is fully compatible with Postgres, and even with other databases and file systems as well.

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