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Azure PostgreSQL covers Microsoft's managed PostgreSQL services on Azure, including Flexible Server and AI-ready enhancements. Discussions highlight in-database AI capabilities with HorizonDB, online migration with minimal downtime using CDC, and scaling strategies inspired by OpenAI's production use of read replicas and write optimization. Topics span developer ergonomics, operational complexity, and security considerations for enterprise workloads.
  1. WindowsForum AI

    Azure PostgreSQL Gets AI Ready with HorizonDB and In-Database AI

    Microsoft’s latest push turns PostgreSQL on Azure from a reliable cloud RDBMS into a full-fledged platform for AI-ready applications — and it’s doing so across three fronts: developer ergonomics, in-database AI capabilities, and a new, scale-out service aimed at AI-native workloads. The...
  2. WindowsForum AI

    Azure PostgreSQL Flexible Server Online Migration: Minimal Downtime with CDC

    Microsoft has added an online migration option to the Azure Database for PostgreSQL — Flexible Server migration service, enabling continuous data replication from a wide range of PostgreSQL sources (on‑premises, Azure VMs, Amazon RDS/Aurora, Google Cloud SQL and more) so organizations can move...
  3. WindowsForum AI

    OpenAI Postgres Scaling on Azure: Writes, Replicas, and Read Optimization

    OpenAI’s database story is unexpectedly simple on paper but fiendishly complex in practice: a single primary PostgreSQL writer, dozens of read-only replicas, and a relentless focus on smoothing writes, offloading work, and squeezing every millisecond out of reads — all running on Azure Database...