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AlloyDB now provides general availability of PostgreSQL 18 and introduces Extended Support to help balance rapid innovation with operational stability.
•Extended Support program provides three years of coverage with critical security patches, bug fixes, and SLA protection for PostgreSQL 14-17
•PostgreSQL 18 features faster queries with B-tree skip scans, parallel GIN index usage, virtual generated columns, and native UUIDv7 support
•In-place major version upgrades minimize downtime and avoid data migration, demonstrated by UKG's successful upgrade of multi-tenant architecture
•Separated compute-storage architecture enables horizontal scaling without data duplication and achieves 2x better price-performance than self-managed PostgreSQL
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Elastic storage automatically grows and shrinks based on data usage, providing predictable throughput without storage-based performance limits
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