Stay focused on your code, we handle all your database management. Don’t lose time on your Database instances’ backup administration, updates, setup or settings. You are still in control of managing users, permissions, allowed IPs (ACLs), and advanced settings to customize and secure your Database.

Duplicate or increase your Database instances’ size on the fly from Scaleway console to speed up your data processing and allocate more space. Our Databases are powered by a wide range of instances, so you can find the right mix of vCPU power, RAM and storage capacity. Thanks to integration with Block Storage, you can scale up to 10TB with no downtime or interruption, without the need to upgrade the node type.

Our databases are built using our DEV and GP virtual instances, so they benefit from the same stability and performance guarantees. We use the instance’s local volume to guarantee high-performance disk access. Choose DB-GP instances for your critical and resource-intensive databases. You can track key database metrics via API, and get visual statistics from the Scaleway console.

A database instance configured in high availability (H.A.) mode is always provisioned on two nodes: a primary node and a secondary node in synchronous replication, also called a standby node. We also ensure that your instances run on different hypervisors. If the primary node is no longer operational, the secondary node will take over. Your data is redundant and its integrity is therefore guaranteed.

Block Storage brings more flexibility, scalability, and usability to your databases. With this option, your storage capacity is no longer limited by the compute resources, but can hot scale up to 10TB without the need to upgrade the node type. This allows you to optimize your costs and adapt to your application’s traffic by allocating the right amount of computing resources in real time. At the same time, data stored with Block Storage is replicated three times across different servers to ensure that your data remains highly available in case of a disk failure. The Snapshot option allows you to quickly make copies of your data and recover from accidental data modifications or incorrect manipulations

Your backups & snapshots are automatically insured and are customizable from the Scaleway console. You can manage their frequency and retention time. You can also deactivate or reactivate the automation. With the Block Storage option, you can create snapshots of your instance in a matter of seconds whatever the size of the volume, allowing you to recover a previous state of your data in case of any data alteration due to incorrect manipulations. Snapshots are also useful for creating a copy of the data for testing and avoiding any interruptions to the main database. Your backups and snapshots are compressed and charged at €0.03/GB/month.

Database instances are continuously monitored and benefit from our auto-healing feature. In the case of an H.A. configuration, if a node becomes unavailable, the standby node will become active in less than 10 seconds (auto-failover). The failing node is then replaced and reconfigured automatically.

Our Database instances are available with PostgreSQL relational database management systems (versions  10, 11, 12 and 13) as well as MySQL (version 8). You can customize the settings of your engine according to your needs. We provide you with many useful extensions as TimescaleDB,PostGIS and others.

We ensure your services are always up and running. Our technical assistance is available 24 hours a day, 7 days a week to answer all your questions and to assist you. Simply open a new ticket in case of a problem. You can also reach our support directly by phone or to get faster responses if you upgrade your support plan.