Neon is a newly launched serverless Postgres service designed to provide an optimal cloud experience by separating storage and compute, which enhances performance, reliability, manageability, and cost-efficiency. The service is currently gated by a waitlist, reflecting its gradual onboarding process, and emphasizes the growing trend of cloud-hosted database workloads. Unlike traditional monolithic Postgres deployments that require overprovisioning and often incur high costs due to storage redundancy, Neon's architecture leverages local storage and S3 to optimize costs and integrates seamlessly with Postgres without requiring significant modifications. This design allows for dynamic scaling of compute resources, facilitating modern development workflows with features like branching, which enables developers to create test environments with ease. By adopting an open-source model with an Apache 2.0 license, Neon aims to establish a standard for cloud Postgres that is both independent and community-driven, contrasting proprietary solutions like AWS Aurora.