PlanetScale brings Postgres and Neki to Microsoft Azure
PlanetScale databases are now available on Azure, in three regions to start, though its Vitess MySQL offering stays AWS and GCP only.
PlanetScale launched on Microsoft Azure on 13 October, letting you create PlanetScale Postgres and Neki (its sharded Postgres offering) databases alongside the AWS and Google Cloud regions it already supports. Vitess, PlanetScale’s MySQL-compatible product, is not part of this launch and stays limited to AWS and GCP.
Azure databases start in three regions: Central US (Iowa), East US 2 (Virginia) and West Europe (Netherlands). They get the same features as elsewhere: a primary with replicas spread across three availability zones, Query Insights, schema recommendations and automated backups, running on PlanetScale’s Metal clusters with NVMe storage. Existing databases don’t move automatically; PlanetScale says to contact support to migrate one to Azure.
Why it matters: if your infrastructure is already committed to Azure, you previously had to either run Postgres yourself or go through Azure’s own managed offering to get PlanetScale’s tooling. This removes that trade-off, at least for Postgres and Neki workloads.
The caveat: only three regions so far, and Vitess users get nothing here, so a MySQL-on-Vitess setup still means AWS or GCP.