PlanetScale - the world’s fastest and most scalable cloud hosting for Vitess and Postgres 📹 The future of AI infrastructure: optimize and shard your database with agents. Watch the talk Log in | Get started | Get in touch Platform ▾ | Resources ▾ | Documentation | Pricing | Migrate Navigation Platform ▾ | Resources ▾ | Documentation | Pricing | Migrate The world’s fastest and most scalable cloud databases PlanetScale brings you the fastest databases available in the cloud. Both our Postgres and Vitess databases deliver exceptional speed and reliability, with Vitess adding ultra scalability through horizontal sharding. Our blazing fast NVMe drives unlock unlimited IOPS , bringing data center performance to the cloud. We offer a range of deployment options to cover all of your security and compliance requirements — including bring your own cloud with PlanetScale Managed . PlanetScale powers Tier 0 databases at: Read case study Read case study Read blog post Read case study Read blog post Read case study Read case study Read case study We chose PlanetScale to host our most demanding Vitess and Postgres workloads, doing millions of queries per second on hundreds of terabytes of data. – Sualeh Asif - Chief Product Officer @Anysphere (Cursor) Vitess Postgres Neki Vitess allows MySQL databases to scale horizontally through explicit sharding — enabling a shared nothing architecture distributing data across thousands of nodes, all routed through a single database connection. Vitess was developed at YouTube by the founders of PlanetScale to scale their main MySQL database to petabytes of data on 70,000 nodes across 20 data centers. 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Available in AWS and GCP. High availability clusters deliver automatic failover across three availability zones. PlanetScale Metal starts at $50 per month for NVMe-backed performance with unlimited IOPS . PlanetScale Metal is benchmarked as the fastest Postgres in the cloud High availability: 1 primary and 2 replicas across three AZs with automated failover. Connection pooling with PgBouncer (port 6432 ) and buffered failovers to minimize impact. Branch-per-environment; each branch runs on its own dedicated cluster, priced prorated to the millisecond. Scale reads with replicas , streamline schema work with branching , and protect data with automated backups . Database Traffic Control™ lets you enforce flexible budgets on your Postgres query traffic to protect your database from runaway queries and unexpected load spikes. Get started with the Postgres quickstart or read the Postgres documentation . Neki is our next-generation Postgres sharding architecture inspired by everything we have learned building Vitess: a fresh design from first principles to bring massive scale and reliability to PostgreSQL workloads. Built for large scale Postgres workloads. Designed for predictable performance and fault tolerance at scale. Learn more in Announcing Neki and the PlanetScale for Postgres announcement . Want to request access? Fill out the form on neki.dev . Performance PlanetScale Metal allows you to run your database on the fastest servers available in the cloud. Our blazing fast NVMe drives unlock unlimited IOPS and drastically lower latencies compared to other cloud database providers like Amazon Aurora and GCP Cloud SQL. The graph above displays the p50, p95, and p99 change after moving a database to Metal. See more benchmarks on our Benchmarking page . We are very happy with our decision to migrate to PlanetScale Metal which enabled us to achieve the rare outcome of improvements in performance, cost, and reliability – a win for our customers and our business. – Aaron Young @ Cash App Uptime Ensuring your database is always running and your data is always safe is our number one priority. Nothing comes before uptime and reliability. Our SLA commitment is 99.999% for multi-region deployments and 99.99% for single-region deployments. PlanetScale’s platform far exceeds the reliability of database services like Amazon Aurora/RDS and Google Cloud SQL with superior architecture and by making all database operations online. Deploy schema changes fully online Revertable schema changes (with zero data loss) Directing traffic to new read-only replicas Online MySQL and Vitess version updates Online cluster resizing and resharding You can check out our track record on our status page . We knew how deeply the PlanetScale team understands database services, and they were literally the only team we trusted enough to consider leaving behind Aurora. – Jamie Turner, Founder & CEO @ Convex Cost At PlanetScale we believe cost is a unit of scale. Our product is less expensive than RDS MySQL and Aurora for around 85% of the workloads that customers have migrated to Metal. Getting a custom quote is easy: reach out to us . No long sales process or annoying pitches — you can probably tell from our website that the tech speaks for itself. No matter the size of your workload, PlanetScale Metal has the best price to performance ratio of any database service. Bring your own cloud with PlanetScale Managed Purchase through the AWS Marketplace or the GCP Marketplace Customers running Metal on PlanetScale Managed can realize additional savings through Reserved Instances or Savings Plans — discounts otherwise not available on traditional EBS volumes. Security PlanetScale is trusted by some of the world’s largest brands. Our core infrastructure was built to comply wi