Database for PostgreSQL

by
Andrew Snodgrass

by
Andrew Snodgrass

Andrew analyzes and writes about Microsoft's data management, business intelligence, and machine learning solutions, as well as aspects of licensing... more

Azure Database for PostgreSQL is a managed relational database service based on the community edition of PostgreSQL. Microsoft retains compatibility with the community product while adding Azure-based infrastructure management, security, monitoring, backup, high availability, and scaling capabilities.

Product: Database for PostgreSQL

Licensing: Database for PostgreSQL

Recent Updates and Near-Term Roadmap (2025–2026)

Updates to PostgreSQL show Microsoft’s commitment to the service by addressing several key requirements from the community. For example:

Azure-related updates bring automatic key rotation, high-availability with Premium SSDv2 drives, on-demand backups, and improved long-term backup management.

Data-related updates introduce connectors to Azure Data Factory and Synapse Analytics and inclusion in Fabric’s data mirroring capabilities to replicate data into Fabric for further analysis.

Programming updates include previews of a new PostgreSQL VS Code extension that can talk to GitHub Copilot, the Apache Age extension (a graph data component), the DiskANN Vector Indexing extension used in large language models, and updated TimeScaleDB and PostGIS extensions.