NetApp Instaclustr has always showcased how the best open source software can run on the best storage. Today, we’re excited to announce the public preview of Instaclustr PostgreSQL® running on Amazon FSx for NetApp ONTAP—a powerful combination designed to deliver exceptional performance, efficiency, and future-ready capabilities for your PostgreSQL workloads.

Why FSx for ONTAP?

FSx for ONTAP brings enterprise-grade storage capabilities to the cloud, offering high throughput, low latency, and advanced data management features. By integrating it with Instaclustr’s Managed PostgreSQL platform, we aim not only giving you performance improvements you can use right now, but we’re also to lay the groundwork for customers to take advantage of the snapshotting and data management features that ONTAP is famous for.

Faster performance, lower latency

This preview release allows you to create Instaclustr PostgreSQL clusters backed by FSx for ONTAP storage, designed to unlock:

  • Higher IOPS and throughput for demanding workloads
  • On-disk compression to reduce storage footprint and costs
  • Our internal testing with PGbench shows impressive results vs. a standard Instaclustr PostgreSQL node:
    • Up to 28% improvement in Transactions Per Second (TPS)
    • 22% reduction in latency

These gains aim to provide faster queries, smoother application performance, and better scalability—without increasing your instance size or adding costly hardware. We will publish a performance testing white paper in the coming weeks.

Looking ahead: Future ONTAP-powered features

This preview is just the beginning. Our roadmap includes bringing the best of ONTAP’s capabilities planned for the near future:

  • Fast forking—Instantly clone databases of any size for testing or analytical workloads
  • Instant Restores—Recover from snapshots in seconds
  • Bring your own FSx—Use existing FSx storage virtual machines instead of provisioning new ones per cluster
  • Instant snapshot backups—Capture backups of any size database with zero client impact
  • Multi-region disaster recovery—Achieve resilience without requiring secondary compute resources

These features are designed to further enhance operational flexibility, reduce recovery times, and enable new possibilities for managing mission-critical PostgreSQL workloads in the cloud.

Get started with Instaclustr for PostgreSQL on Amazon FSx today

You can start exploring the benefits of Instaclustr for PostgreSQL on Amazon FSx for ONTAP right now in our public preview. It only takes a few clicks to create a cluster through our console, Terraform provider, or API.

If you have questions about how this new offering can accelerate your applications, our team is here to help. Contact the Instaclustr sales team to schedule a discussion and see how we can support your goals.

Please note: During this preview stage, SLAs are not applicable, and there may be substantial changes prior to the General Availability (GA) release. If you would like to explore using this preview for production workloads, please contact our sales team to discuss your specific requirements.

 

 

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