Claire Giordano joins Scott Hanselman to show how the new Free account for Flexible Server & the new Basic tier for Hyperscale (Citus) in Azure Database for PostgreSQL makes it easier and cheaper to get started with Postgres on Azure.

[0:00:00]– Introduction
[0:01:15]– What you might not know about Postgres on Azure
[0:02:50]– Flexible Server available in Azure free account
[0:04:00]– Getting started with Hyperscale (Citus)
[0:09:05]– Demo: Hyperscale (Citus)
[0:18:20]– Wrap-up

• Flexible Server (Preview) documentation
• Tutorial: Deploy Django app with App Service and Azure Database for PostgreSQL - Flexible Server (Preview)
• DEMO: 3 Hyperscale (Citus) superpowers to scale PostgreSQL (YouTube)
• Citus (PostgreSQL extension) GitHub repo
• Azure Database for PostgreSQL - Hyperscale (Citus) documentation
• New Postgres superpowers in Hyperscale (Citus) with Citus 10
• Sharding Postgres with Basic tier in Hyperscale (Citus), how why & when
• Microsoft Learn: Introduction to Azure Database for PostgreSQL
• Introducing Flexible Server in Azure Database for PostgreSQL & MySQL (Ch 9)
• How do you pronounce Citus?
• Create a free account (Azure)