Hanzo SQL: Managed PostgreSQL with Zero Ops

PostgreSQL is the best general-purpose database. Running PostgreSQL in production is a full-time job: replication setup, backup management, failover configuration, version upgrades, connection pooling, performance tuning, security patching. Every operations team reinvents this wheel.

Today we are launching Hanzo SQL: managed PostgreSQL that handles all of this automatically.

What You Get

Automatic High Availability

• Primary with synchronous standby replica
• Automatic failover in under 30 seconds
• Zero data loss on failover (synchronous replication)
• Connection strings automatically update on failover

Automatic Backups

• Continuous WAL archiving
• Point-in-time recovery to any second in the last 30 days
• Daily full snapshots retained for 90 days
• Cross-region backup storage

Connection Pooling

Built-in PgBouncer for connection management:

• Thousands of application connections multiplexed to database connections
• Transaction-mode pooling for maximum efficiency
• No additional configuration required

Auto-Scaling

• Storage grows automatically as data increases
• Read replicas added with one click
• Compute scaling with minimal downtime

Extensions

Full PostgreSQL extension support:

• pgvector: Vector similarity search for AI/ML workloads
• PostGIS: Geospatial queries
• pg_trgm: Fuzzy text search
• timescaledb: Time-series data
• Plus 50+ additional extensions

Pricing

• Starter: $15/month — 1 vCPU, 1GB RAM, 10GB storage
• Standard: $50/month — 2 vCPU, 4GB RAM, 50GB storage
• Performance: $200/month — 4 vCPU, 16GB RAM, 200GB storage
• Enterprise: Custom — dedicated instances, custom configurations

All plans include HA, backups, and connection pooling.

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