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Difference between running Postgres for yourself and for others

At Ubicloud, our managed cloud service enables us to run PostgreSQL for others. We open sourced our implementation, so we thought this was a good opportunity to talk about its features. This blog post summarizes features commonly available in a managed service. It also describes interesting differences between running Postgres for yourself and others across four product areas - provisioning, backup/restore, HA, and security.

If you’re thinking about running Postgres for others, AWS, Azure, and Google had managed solutions for years and their features define the bar for customer expectations. But that means you need to send an external request; and the provider at some point (usually in minutes but sometimes it can be hours) signs your certificate and returns it back to you. To our knowledge, this is the first time a cloud provider is sharing those differences and their high level approach to building a managed Postgres service.

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