Azure Database for PostgreSQL – Hyperscale (Citus): Germany West Central region generally available

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Published

Sep 1, 2021

Status

Launched

Timeline

  • September 2021
    General Availability

Product

Azure Database for PostgreSQL

Tag

Features
Management
Regions & Datacenters
Open Source

Category

Databases
Hybrid + multicloud

Description

Azure Database for PostgreSQL – Hyperscale (Citus) is now generally available in the Germany West Central region. With the addition of Azure Database for PostgreSQL – Hyperscale (Citus) to this region, you can now distribute your PostgreSQL database to horizontally scale queries across multiple machines using sharding. The query engine parallelizes incoming SQL queries across these servers for faster responses on large datasets. The query engine also serves applications that require greater scale and performance for typical workloads approaching or already exceeding 100 GB of data. 

Learn more about the supported regions where Azure Database for PostgreSQL – Hyperscale (Citus) is available.