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Introducing Azure HorizonDB - PostgreSQL

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Zachary-Cavanell
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Jun 09, 2026

Run enterprise PostgreSQL workloads on Azure HorizonDB with around 3x the throughput of self-managed deployments - zone-resilient by default, no architectural trade-offs.

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