Microsoft announced its Azure HorizonDB for PostgreSQL in preview at the company’s Ignite conference this week.
With this new offering, Microsoft is joining the field of cloud native, managed Postgres services with a platform designed to compete directly with Amazon Aurora PostgreSQL and Google AlloyDB.
The preview release makes Microsoft a serious PostgreSQL vendor, where the open source database has become, as Andrew Brust, CEO of Blue Badge Insights and Microsoft MVP, put it, “the vanilla ice cream of databases: everybody wants some,…
