Features and Benefits

Features

• Fully managed lifecycle: IONOS CLOUD provisions, patches, monitors, and handles failover for your PostgreSQL clusters; no infrastructure management required.
• High availability: Each cluster runs a primary node with warm standby replicas. Failover is automatic, and you can scale horizontally or vertically without downtime.
• Automated backups and point-in-time recovery: WAL-based backups run automatically. You can restore your cluster to any point within the backup window.
• Independent backup location: Your backup region is separate from your cluster region, so your backups are stored off-site by default.
• Region-specific deployments: Clusters are available across nine IONOS CLOUD regions, each with a dedicated endpoint.
• Token-based authentication: All API access uses token authentication. Client connections are TLS-encrypted with SCRAM-SHA-256 password authentication.
• Log and metrics forwarding: Cluster logs and metrics are forwarded to IONOS CLOUD Logging and Monitoring Services when enabled on the cluster.
• PostgreSQL version support: Clusters run PostgreSQL versions 14, 15, 16, 17, and 18.

Benefits

• Reduced operational overhead: IONOS CLOUD handles the operational work: patching, backups, failover, and infrastructure monitoring, so your team spends time on the product, not the platform.
• Data recoverability: Point-in-time recovery means an accidental deletion or data corruption is not permanent. You can restore to before it happened.
• Continuous availability: Automatic failover to a standby replica keeps your service running if the primary node fails, without manual intervention.
• Regional flexibility: Nine regions with dedicated endpoints let you place your database close to your application and meet data residency requirements.
• Built-in security: Token authentication, TLS encryption, and private LAN connectivity are built in; no additional security tooling to configure.
• Native observability: Logs and metrics flow directly to your IONOS CLOUD Logging and Monitoring Services, so you monitor PostgreSQL alongside the rest of your infrastructure.