Azure Database for PostgreSQL

Fully managed, intelligent, and scalable PostgreSQL.

Overview

Azure Database for PostgreSQL is a relational database service in the Microsoft cloud based on the PostgreSQL open source relational database.

Key Resources

Homepage: https://learn.microsoft.com/azure/postgresql/
Pricing: https://azure.microsoft.com/pricing/details/postgresql/
SLA: https://azure.microsoft.com/support/legal/sla/postgresql/
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News

Date News
12/3/2025
Now you can deploy Azure Database for PostgreSQL Flexible Server in the Belgium Central Azure region. Learn more
12/3/2025
Now you can upgrade the pg_squeeze extension to version 1.9.1 in Azure Database for PostgreSQL Flexible Server. Learn more.
12/3/2025
Now you can install the ip4r extension in Azure Database for PostgreSQL Flexible Server. Ip4r provides efficient storage and indexing functionality for IPv4 and IPv6 addresses and ranges. Learn more
12/3/2025
Now you can install the credcheck extension in Azure Database for PostgreSQL Flexible Server. The credcheck extension helps you to enforce password and credential validation policies directly...
11/18/2025
Engineered for performance, Azure HorizonDB for PostgreSQL delivers future-proof, autoscaling storage up to 128 TB, up to 3 times faster performance than open-source PostgreSQL, and rapid compute...
11/18/2025
Migrating from Oracle to PostgreSQL is now simpler and faster with the new Oracle-to-PostgreSQL migration tooling, available directly in the Azure Database for PostgreSQL extension for Visual...
11/18/2025
Announcing the general availability of the 2025 REST API for Azure Database for PostgreSQL. This release adds support for PostgreSQL 17 and 18, so you can adopt new versions without changing your...
11/18/2025
Now you can use elastic clusters to horizontally scale Azure Database for PostgreSQL through row-based and schema-based sharding. Elastic clusters make it easy to build multitenant apps by...
11/18/2025
Announcing the public preview of Microsoft Foundry support for Azure Database for PostgreSQL. The Azure PostgreSQL MCP Server is now natively integrated with Microsoft Foundry. This integration...
11/18/2025
The anon extension is now generally available in Azure Database for PostgreSQL flexible server. This extension provides data anonymization tools. Learn more.
11/18/2025
Now you can deploy general purpose and memory-optimized v6-series Azure Virtual Machines with local NVMe storage in Azure Database for PostgreSQL flexible server. The v6 series is available with...
11/18/2025
Now you can create pg_duckdb extensions in Azure Database for PostgreSQL flexible server, so you can accelerate analytics using DuckDB’s vectorized, columnar execution. Learn more.
11/18/2025
You can now use PostgreSQL 18 on Azure Database for PostgreSQL. This release introduces the latest PostgreSQL innovations along with seamless in-place upgrade support, allowing you to move from...
11/18/2025
Announcing that the PostgreSQL extension for Visual Studio Code is generally available. With this powerful tool, you can connect to PostgreSQL database instances, run queries, create and manage...
11/18/2025
You can now bring data together and simplify analytics using Microsoft Fabric mirroring for Azure Database for PostgreSQL flexible server, now generally available. Mirroring in Fabric unifies...
11/18/2025
Announcing that Azure Database for PostgreSQL flexible server now supports the Azure Storage extension with Parquet format and multiple compression options. You can seamlessly read and write...
11/18/2025
Software is evolving faster than ever, and organizations now operate across multiple generations of application architectures at once: AI apps and agents, cloud-native microservices, modernized...
11/18/2025
Azure SRE Agent offers intelligent and context aware automation for IT operations. Enhanced by customer feedback from our preview, the SRE Agent has evolved into an extensible platform to...
11/18/2025
The Modernization Moment: Why Now? Modernizing enterprise applications has historically been slow, manual, and costly. For many IT leaders and developers, it’s meant wrestling with aging...
11/8/2025
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