managed postgres

karlhorky · January 30, 2025, 10:24am

For anyone looking at this in 2025:

Fly.io is building a Managed Postgres product called Fly MPG, which should have a first version around Feb or Mar 2025:

gist.github.com

https://gist.github.com/karlhorky/f80217c1e908e5c3bbdaffb002c55eb9

fly-io-2025-newsletter.md

## Feature story: Managed Postgres and Why We're Building it After Saying We Never Would

If there's one product decision in the history of the company we often wish we could revisit, it's how we've handled databases. In 2025, one of the biggest things we're doing is reversing that decision. So, here in this January newsletter, let's read you in to our plan.

For most of the life of this company, we've offered "unmanaged" (or, more charitably, "automated") Postgres. That's a system in which we help you stand up a Postgres cluster, optimized in some ways by us for the Fly.io platform, and then leave you to operate and scale it. We call that feature "Fly Postgres". Sometime in the relatively near future, we'll be superseding it with a managed database, called Fly MPG.

Real quick, let's recap how we got here.

People who have been with us for a long time might remember, we launched Fly.io without persistent storage of any kind. Back in 2020, we were an "edge compute provider", and our platform was optimized for stateless workloads, like image accelerators; we were a "CDN" code code.

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