| title | What Is Neon Serverless Postgres? |
|---|---|
| description | Learn about Neon Serverless Postgres, a cloud-native Postgres solution designed for modern applications, in Azure Marketplace. |
| author | ProfessorKendrick |
| ms.topic | overview |
| ms.date | 08/04/2025 |
| ai-usage | ai-assisted |
Important
Deprecation Note: The Neon Azure Native Integration is now retired. Existing customers can transfer projects to a Neon managed organization. Learn more here Migrate from Neon Azure Native Integration.
Neon Serverless Postgres is a cloud-native, serverless, fully managed PostgreSQL database service jointly developed and managed by Microsoft and Neon as an Azure Native Integration. [!INCLUDE what-is]
Neon Serverless Postgres is designed for applications that require rapid scaling, cost optimization, and advanced development workflows.
Typical use cases include:
- Web and mobile applications with variable or unpredictable workloads
- Development and testing environments that benefit from database branching and instant restore
- Scenarios where developers need a fully managed PostgreSQL service with minimal operational overhead
- Data analytics and reporting applications that require high availability and performance without the complexity of managing database infrastructure.
- Applications that require a serverless database solution with automatic scaling and cost efficiency.
The following features set Neon Serverless Postgres apart from traditional managed database services and support modern application development and operations:
- Scale-to-Zero: Automatically scales down to zero when not in use, reducing costs while maintaining instant availability when needed.
- Serverless Autoscaling: Automatically scales resources based on workload demands, ensuring optimal performance without manual intervention.
- Database Branching: Enables developers to create isolated copies of a database for testing or development without impacting production data.
- Instant Point-in-Time Restore: Allows rapid recovery of a database to a previous state for disaster recovery or testing purposes.
Important
Deprecation Note: The Neon Azure Native Integration is now retired. Existing customers can transfer projects to a Neon managed organization. Learn more here Migrate from Neon Azure Native Integration.
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