August 2025 Recap: Azure Database for PostgreSQL
Here’s what’s new this month to help you build smarter and scale securely: Advisor performance tuning (GA): New insights on index scans, logging, stats, and connections Entra ID group login (Preview): Let users sign in with their own credentials (no need for login using group-ID). New region – Austria East: Lower latency + data residency options for Central Europe LangChain & LangGraph support: Use Azure PostgreSQL as a vector store for AI agents Active-active replication guide: Step-by-step walkthrough using pglogical Full details in monthly recap: https://techcommunity.microsoft.com/blog/adforpostgresql/august-2025-recap-azure-database-for-postgresql/4450527June 2025 updates for Azure Database for PostgreSQL
Big news this month — PostgreSQL 17 is now GA with in-place upgrades, and our Migration Service fully supports PG17, making adoption smoother than ever. Also in this release: Online Migration is now generally available SSD v2 HA (Preview) with 10s failovers and better resilience Azure PostgreSQL now available in Indonesia Central VS Code extension enhancements for smoother dev experience Enhanced role management for improved admin control Ansible collection updated for latest REST API Check all these updates in this month’s recap blog: https://techcommunity.microsoft.com/blog/adforpostgresql/june-2025-recap-azure-database-for-postgresql/4412095 Check it out and tell us which feature you're most excited about!Just published: What's new with Postgres at Microsoft, 2025 edition
If you’re using Postgres on Azure—or just curious about what the Postgres team at Microsoft has been up to during the past 12 months—this annual update might be worth a look. The blog post covers: New features in Azure Database for PostgreSQL – Flexible Server Open source code contributions to Postgres 18 (including async I/O) Work on the Citus extension to Postgres Community efforts like POSETTE, helping with PGConf.dev, our monthly Talking Postgres podcast, and more There’s also a hand-made infographic that maps out the different Postgres workstreams at Microsoft over the past year. It's a lot to take in, but the infographic captures so much of the work across the team—I think it's kind of a work of art. 📝 Read the full post here: https://techcommunity.microsoft.com/blog/adforpostgresql/whats-new-with-postgres-at-microsoft-2025-edition/4410710 And, I'd love to hear your thoughts or questions.Need feedback on blog post "What's new with Postgres at Microsoft, 2024 edition"
Just published this brand new deep-dive of a blog post to share highlights of all the Azure & the open source work done by the Postgres team at Microsoft over the last 8 months. The title: What's new with Postgres at Microsoft, 2024 edition. // And would like to know: do you find this useful?? The post contains a detailed infographic (handmade) that gives you a visual outline of all the different Postgres workstreams our engineering & PM teams have been driving. And because the Postgres 17 code freeze just happened last month, I included highlights from some of the new PG17 capabilities our Postgres contributor team worked on as well. If you're an Azure Database for PostgreSQL - Flexible Server customer, you won't be disappointed. Lots of new features rolled out in the last 8 months.About "What's new with Postgres at Microsoft", the August 2023 edition
Microsoft is investing a lot in Postgres & this "What's new with Postgres at Microsoft" post walks you through the last 12 months, including new features in Azure Database for PostgreSQL Flexible Server, and Azure Cosmos DB for PostgreSQL—plus our contributions to Postgres core, the Citus database extension, Patroni, PgBouncer, pgcopydb, pg_cron, and more.
