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📹 The future of AI infrastructure: optimize and shard your database with agents.Watch the talk Log in |Get started |Get in touch * Platform▾ * | * Resources▾ * | * Documentation * | * Pricing * | * Migrate # The world’s fastest and most scalable cloud databases PlanetScale brings you the fastest databases available in the cloud. Both our Postgres and Vitess databases deliver exceptional speed and reliability, with Vitess adding ultra scalability through horizontal sharding. Our blazing fast NVMe drives unlock **unlimited IOPS**, bringing data center performance to the cloud. We offer a range of deployment options to cover all of your security and compliance requirements — including bring your own cloud with PlanetScale Managed. PlanetScale powers Tier 0 databases at: Read case studyRead case studyRead blog postRead case studyRead blog postRead case studyRead case study > We chose PlanetScale to host our most demanding Vitess and Postgres workloads, doing millions of queries per second on hundreds of terabytes of data. – Sualeh Asif - Chief Product Officer @Anysphere (Cursor) VitessPostgresNeki Vitess allows MySQL databases to scale horizontally through explicit sharding — enabling a shared nothing architecture distributing data across thousands of nodes, all routed through a single database connection. Vitess was developed at YouTube by the founders of PlanetScale to scale their main MySQL database to petabytes of data on 70,000 nodes across 20 data centers. Now maintained and managed by PlanetScale, Vitess powers the databases of some of the web's largest properties: Slack, HubSpot, Blizzard, Etsy, GitHub, Block, Bloomberg, Yelp, and more. ``` ┌─────────────────────────────────────────────────────────┐ │░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░│ │░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░VTGate░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░│ │░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░│ └─────────────────────────────────────────────────────────┘ │ ─ ─ ─ ─ ─ ─ ─ ─ ─ ─ ─ ─ ─ ─ ─ ┼ ─ ─ ─ ─ ─ ─ ─ ─ ─ ─ ─ ─ ─ ─ ─ │ │ ▼ ▼ ▼ ╔═══════════════════╗ ╔═══════════════════╗ ╔═══════════════════╗ ║ ║ ║ ║ ║ ║ ║ ║ ║ ║ ║ ║ ║ Primary ║ ║ Primary ║ ║ Primary ║ ║ ║ ║ ║ ║ ║ ║ ║ ║ ║ ║ ║ ╚═══════════════════╝ ╚═══════════════════╝ ╚═══════════════════╝ │ │ │ ┌ ─ ─ ─ ─ ─ ─ ┐ ┌ ─ ─ ─ ─ ─ ─ ┐ ┌ ─ ─ ─ ─ ─ ─ ┐ ▼ ▼ ▼ ▼ ▼ ▼ ┌───────────┐ ┌───────────┐ ┌───────────┐ ┌───────────┐ ┌───────────┐ ┌───────────┐ │ │ │ │ │ │ │ │ │ │ │ │ │ Replica │ │ Replica │ │ Replica │ │ Replica │ │ Replica │ │ Replica │ │ │ │ │ │ │ │ │ │ │ │ │ └───────────┘ └───────────┘ └───────────┘ └───────────┘ └───────────┘ └───────────┘ ``` > Our migration to Vitess is more than just a technological upgrade; it's a strategic move to future-proof our database architecture for the next decade and beyond. – Ryan Sherlock @Intercom ## Performance PlanetScale Metal allows you to run your database on the fastest servers available in the cloud. Our blazing fast NVMe drives unlock unlimited IOPS and drastically lower latencies compared to other cloud database providers like Amazon Aurora and GCP Cloud SQL. The graph above displays the p50, p95, and p99 change after moving a database to Metal. See more benchmarks on our Benchmarking page. > We are very happy with our decision to migrate to PlanetScale Metal which enabled us to achieve the rare outcome of improvements in performance, cost, and reliability – a win for our customers and our business. – Aaron Young @ Cash App --- ## Uptime Ensuring your database is always running and your data is always safe is our number one priority. Nothing comes before uptime and reliability. Our SLA commitment is 99.999% for multi-region deployments and 99.99% for single-region deployments. PlanetScale’s platform far exceeds the reliability of database services like Amazon Aurora/RDS and Google Cloud SQL with superior architecture and by making all database operations online. * Deploy schema changes fully online * Revertable schema changes (with zero data loss) * Directing traffic to new read-only replicas * Online MySQL and Vitess version updates * Online cluster resizing and resharding You can check out our track record on our status page. > We knew how deeply the PlanetScale team understands database services, and they were literally the only team we trusted enough to consider leaving behind Aurora. – Jamie Turner, Founder & CEO @ Convex --- ## Cost At PlanetScale we believe cost is a unit of scale. Our product is less expensive than RDS MySQL and Aurora for around 85% of the workloads that customers have migrated to Metal. Getting a custom quote is easy: reach out to us. No long sales process or annoying pitches — you can probably tell from our website that the tech speaks for itself. * No matter the size of your workload, PlanetScale Metal has the best price to performance ratio of any database service. * Bring your own cloud with PlanetScale Managed * Purchase through the AWS Marketplace or the GCP Marketplace * Customers running Metal on PlanetScale Managed can realize additional savings through Reserved Instances or Savings Plans — discounts otherwise not available on traditional EBS volumes. --- ## Security PlanetScale is trusted by some of the world’s largest brands. Our core infrastructure was built to comply with high standards of security, compliance, and privacy. * SOC 1 Type 2 & SOC 2 Type 2+ HIPAA compliance * PCI DSS 4.0 compliance as a Level 1 Service Provider * HIPAA Business Associate Agreements available on all plans Learn more about our security and compliance practices in the security documentation. > We have very strict regulatory requirements that can feel painful to the average engineer, however PlanetScale was a strong partner in grinding through our asks, leaving us in a place where everyone was happy. – Aaron Young @Cash App Visit our Trust Center to request the latest copy of our SOC reports, PCI DSS Attestation of Compliance, and more. --- ## Features PlanetScale offers both Vitess/MySQL and Postgres products, built by the infrastructure teams behind Facebook, GitHub, Twitter, Slack, YouTube, and more. The features below are shared across both products, followed by capabilities unique to each product. ### Shared PlanetScale features * Branching and schema/data isolation workflows for safe development across both Postgres and Vitess. * Read scaling with replicas in both Postgres and Vitess. * Incredible performance on PlanetScale Metal with unlimited IOPS on NVMe, plus network-attached storage options. * High availability architecture available with one primary and two replicas across three availability zones and automated failover. * Built-in connection pooling and resilient connection behavior across both products. See Postgres vs Vitess. * Secure connectivity with IP restrictions, AWS PrivateLink, and GCP Private Service Connect. * Built-in observability with Query Insights for Postgres and Query Insights for Vitess. * Automated and custom backups in both Postgres and Vitess. * Multi-region support for globally distributed workloads. See Postgres vs Vitess. * AI agent driven database optimization. * Safe agent access with the PlanetScale MCP server. ### PlanetScale Vitess features * Deploy requests for zero downtime schema changes that your team can review. * Revert bad schema changes with no downtime and no data loss. * Full database observability with Insights to give you a detailed overview of cluster health. * Automate the horizontal scaling of your database with our explicit sharding workflows. * Read-only regions and our Global Edge Network route read traffic to local nodes with low latency. * Integrations with Fivetran, Airbyte, Hightouch, Datadog, Vantage, Debezium, and more. ### PlanetScale Postgres features * $5 single node databases available for development, prototyping, and small projects. * Point-in-time recovery for restoring to a specific moment. * Horizontal scaling with Neki sharding, currently in private early access preview. * Flexible cluster configuration including CPU architectures, storage profiles, parameter tuning, and disk autoscaling. * Advanced safety guardrails with pg\_strict to help block accidental mass UPDATE or DELETE statements without WHERE clauses. * Monitoring integrations for Prometheus, Datadog, and pganalyze. * Curated Postgres extensions including pg\_cron, pg\_hint\_plan, pg\_partman\_bgw, pg\_squeeze, pg\_stat\_statements, pg\_strict, pginsights, pg\_duckdb, and TimescaleDB. * Logical CDC integrations and guided no-downtime import options including dump/restore and WAL streaming, plus provider-specific paths from Supabase, Neon, Heroku, and Aurora. * Database Traffic Control™ to set flexible budgets on your Postgres query traffic, guarding against runaway queries and unexpected load spikes. > Databases are hard. We would rather PlanetScale manage them. We wanted the support PlanetScale offers because they are the experts in the field. We’ve seen this come to fruition in our relationship. – Chris Karper @ MyFitnessPal ## Company AboutBrandBlogChangelogCareersEvents ## Product Case studiesEnterprisePricingBenchmarks ## Resources DocumentationMigrateSupportStatusTrust Center ## Courses MySQL for DevelopersDatabase ScalingLearn Vitess ## Open source VitessVitess communityGitHub Privacy | Terms | Cookies | Patents | Do Not Share My Personal Information © 2026 PlanetScale, Inc. All rights reserved. GitHub | X | LinkedIn | YouTube | Discord | Facebook