Neon
Serverless Postgres
★ 4.5
Serverless Postgres with scale-to-zero, branching, and autoscaling. Separates storage and compute for instant provisioning. Microsoft Azure partnership.
Recursos
✓ Scale to zero (pay only when active)
✓ Database branching (like Git)
✓ Autoscaling up to 56 CU (224 GB RAM)
✓ Point-in-time recovery (up to 30 days)
✓ Read replicas
✓ Neon Auth for user management
✓ REST Data API
✓ Serverless driver for edge functions
✓ PostgreSQL 18 support with async I/O
Prós
- + True serverless with scale-to-zero
- + Database branching for dev/preview
- + Generous free tier
- + Fast cold starts (~500ms)
- + Standard Postgres compatibility
Contras
- − Cold start latency on scale-to-zero
- − Storage costs can grow with PITR
- − Newer platform vs RDS/Aurora
- − Limited to Postgres (no MySQL/etc)