January 2016 Summaries

The text provides a comprehensive tutorial on setting up and running Aiven for PostgreSQL, a fully managed database service. It covers the platform's web console, sign-up process, creating your first database, high-availability features, online upgrades and migration between clouds, SQL statistics, automatic real-time backups, restricting access to the database, billing and project members. The tutorial also includes information on Aiven's performance across different cloud platforms like AWS, GCP, and Azure.

Aiven, a next-generation cloud database service platform, has announced its availability on UpCloud's datacenters. The new Aiven regions immediately available include EU Finland (UpCloud), EU Germany (UpCloud), EU England (UpCloud), and US Illinois (UpCloud). Along with the existing Aiven regions in Amazon Web Services and Google Cloud, this brings the total number of supported regions to seventeen. In the near future, Aiven plans to add DigitalOcean as a supported cloud provider. The company is also seeking feedback on what features or services users would like to see next.

Aiven has launched its next-generation cloud database service platform, Aiven for PostgreSQL 9.5, which is now available on Google Cloud and Amazon Web Services. The service is billed by the hour and takes care of database maintenance tasks, allowing users to focus on their applications and business. Users can launch databases in minutes with backups and fault tolerance automatically handled. A suitable plan can be selected based on actual service usage, and users can access the service through a web console or command line client. The company plans to expand its supported cloud providers to include DigitalOcean and UpCloud in the coming weeks.