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by wirelesspotat 1844 days ago
fly.io[1] supports Postgres clusters with read replicas in different cities[2]

It looks like AWS's Aurora Postgres doesn't support cross-region read replicas, but apparently their Aurora "Global Database" offering does[3]

- [1] https://fly.io

- [2] https://fly.io/docs/reference/postgres/#scaling-horizontally...

- [3] https://docs.aws.amazon.com/AmazonRDS/latest/AuroraUserGuide...

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For fully managed (similar to Heroku Postgres) Crunchy Bridge [1] supports replicas across regions including say EU to AU. Which would actually couple really well with Fly.io for the app side.

- [1] https://www.crunchydata.com/products/crunchy-bridge/