Azure HorizonDB Build Smarter, Faster, and Scale Your PostgreSQL Apps to Infinity

🚀 *MEGA ANNOUNCEMENT! Azure HorizonDB is HERE! Build Smarter, Faster, and Scale Your PostgreSQL Apps to Infinity!* 🤯

We are thrilled to unveil the preview of *Azure HorizonDB**—the next generation, fully managed, **cloud-native PostgreSQL database service* engineered for modern enterprise workloads. Built for business and optimized for developers, HorizonDB empowers you to innovate and scale mission-critical solutions with confidence.

Why You Need to Try Azure HorizonDB 💥

This new service combines the robust ecosystem of Postgres with state-of-the-art Azure architecture, delivering unprecedented performance and AI capabilities:

1. *Dynamic Performance & Scale:* Say goodbye to limitations! Azure HorizonDB delivers up to *3x more throughput* compared to open-source Postgres for transactional workloads.
*Massive Capacity:* Auto-scaling shared storage supports up to *128TB databases* 💾.
*Elastic Compute:* Scale out compute architecture supports up to 3,072 vCores across primary and replica nodes.

2. *AI-Native Capabilities:* Postgres is the database of choice for new AI apps, and HorizonDB extends this power!.
*Lightning-Fast Vector Search:* Introducing **DiskANN Advanced Filtering**! This innovation pushes query predicates directly into the vector similarity search, providing significant performance and scalability improvements for similarity searches over transactional data. Initial benchmarks show Advanced Filtering can reduce query latency by up to 3x! 🚀.
*Zero-Config AI:* Use *built-in AI model management* to seamlessly integrate generative, embedding, and reranking models from Microsoft Foundry directly in the database 🧠.

3. *Developer Power Tools:* Maximize productivity right where you code!
*VS Code & Copilot Integration:* We’ve announced the General Availability of the *PostgreSQL Extension for VS Code* 💻.
*Context-Aware Debugging:* *GitHub Copilot* is now context-aware of your Postgres database, offering higher quality answers and providing *one-click debugging* to diagnose and guide users to fix performance issues instantly! 🛠️.
*Migration Simplified:* Use the preview of *GitHub Copilot powered Oracle migration* built into the PostgreSQL Extension for VS Code to automate complex database code conversion.

4. *Enterprise Ready Day One:* HorizonDB ensures enterprise-grade security, compliance, and reliability.
*Security:* Native support for **Entra ID**, Private Endpoints, data encryption, and integration with Azure Defender for Cloud 🛡️.
*Resilience:* All data is replicated across availability zones by default, with transparent maintenance and near-zero downtime.

Ready to revolutionize your data infrastructure? *Azure HorizonDB is available for early preview access!*

🌐 *Apply for the Preview Now:* aka.ms/PreviewHorizonDB (Participation is limited!).

HorizonDB is currently available in Central US, West US3, UK South, and Australia East regions.

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