survey insights

A survey conducted by The Foundry revealed that 82 percent of PostgreSQL users have concerns about cloud region failures, with 21 percent having experienced such failures in the past year. Among 212 IT decision-makers, 91 percent require no more than four minutes of downtime per month, aiming for an uptime target of approximately 99.99 percent. Additionally, 24 percent seek less than 30 seconds of downtime. AWS dominates the PostgreSQL service market, with 55 percent using AWS RDS and 45 percent using AWS Aurora Global Database. Azure Cosmos DB and Google Cloud SQL are used by 29 percent and 24 percent of respondents, respectively. Unexpected downtime has disrupted business operations for 56 percent of respondents, with 40 percent reporting damage to brand trust. Strategies for ensuring PostgreSQL availability vary, with 58 percent using single-region strategies and 47 percent adopting multi-region approaches. Notably, 23 percent still rely on manual processes, and 5 percent have no high availability strategy. Furthermore, 51 percent of respondents use PostgreSQL in a hybrid database environment, while 35 percent use it as the primary database for customer-facing applications. PostgreSQL has been recognized as the most significant climber in database rankings, currently standing fourth overall.