Introducing Dedicated Read Replicas for Postgres

PlanetScale has introduced dedicated read replicas for Postgres, allowing users to create, size, configure, and connect to asynchronously replicated database instances independently of the primary cluster. Replicas can be deployed in geographically distant regions to reduce read latency for global users or within the same region to isolate workloads such as vector search, analytics, and long-running queries from transactional production traffic. They can be managed through the PlanetScale dashboard, API, or CLI, with configurable compute, memory, disk size, IOPS, throughput, and storage characteristics tailored to each replica’s needs.

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