Managed Postgres

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What is Managed Postgres?

Fly.io’s Managed Postgres is our fully-managed database service that handles all aspects of running production PostgreSQL databases where we take care of:

  • Automatic backups and recovery
  • High availability with automatic failover
  • Performance monitoring and metrics
  • Resource scaling (CPU, RAM, storage)
  • 24/7 support and incident response
  • Automatic encryption of data at rest and in transit

What’s included

You’ll be able to access:

  • A highly-available Postgres cluster within your Fly.io organization’s private network
  • A single database on that cluster
  • Fly.io Support Portal to log tickets and get help
  • Any modules and extensions included in the default Postgres 16 distribution
  • The third party pgvector extension for vector similarity search, if enabled when provisioning your database
  • The third party PostGIS extension for adding geospatial data support, if enabled when provisioning your database

What’s not there yet

At the moment, the following features are under development:

  • Security patches and version upgrades
  • Multiple databases or schemas per cluster
  • Third Party Postgres extensions besides pgvector or postGIS
  • Customer-facing monitoring and alerting
  • Database migration tools

We’re working on expanding these capabilities and will provide updates as they become available.

Regions

The current regions available for deploying Fly.io Managed Postgres are:

  • fra - Frankfurt, Germany
  • gru - São Paulo, Brazil
  • iad - Ashburn, USA
  • lax - Los Angeles, USA
  • ord - Chicago, USA
  • syd - Sydney, Australia

We’ll be rolling out more regions as soon as we can. Choose a region close to your application for optimal performance.

Database Storage

Managed Postgres storage features:

  • Maximum storage limit: 1 TB
  • Initial storage size: Up to 500 GB at creation
  • Storage is replicated across all nodes in your cluster
  • Storage growth is monitored and managed automatically

Pricing

The price of running Fly.io Managed Postgres depends on:

  • CPU/Memory configuration (Launch, Performance, or Enterprise plans)
  • Region in which you’re deploying
  • Storage usage

Database storage is priced at $0.30 per GB for a 30-day month, with each node (primary + replica) incurring its own cost. You can view detailed pricing in your Fly.io dashboard.

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