One in five users hit by service failures in the last year, research finds

A survey of PostgreSQL users has found that the levels of uptime experienced using cloud providers falls well short of their expectations in terms of reliability.

Research firm The Foundry found that among users of common cloud services for PostgreSQL, 82 percent expressed concern about cloud region failures, while 21 percent experienced such failures in the past year.

The survey of 212 IT decision-makers across enterprises and SaaS businesses found that 91 percent of organizations currently using PostgreSQL demand no more than four minutes of downtime per month, or around 99.99 percent uptime, while 24 percent aim for less than 30 seconds. The findings suggest PostgreSQL is capable of supporting operations with significant performance and reliability requirements.

The study, commissioned by distributed PostgreSQL vendor pgEdge, found that AWS maintains a dominant market position for PostgreSQL services. AWS RDS was used by 55 percent of respondents, while AWS Aurora Global ...