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⚡ Introducing PlanetScale Metal ⚡ - Blazing fast NVMe drives - Unlimited IOPS - Drastic reductions in latency - And best price:performance ratio of any database available in AWS or GCP

Block, Intercom, Depot, and more have been running Metal in production for months and have recognized both performance gains and cost savings. See their stories here: Block - pscale.link/bl Depot - pscale.link/dep Intercom - pscale.link/int

Why Metal? Network-attached storage isn’t ideal for databases. Separating storage and compute creates inherent problems, most notably high and widely variable latency as well as lower throughput and higher costs.

Writes to network-attached volumes pass through a NIC, network gear, and another machine before landing on a hard drive. No amount of engineering from the cloud providers can mask the physical reality that network-attached storage is far away.

NVMe changes everything. I/O latency is lower now because SSDs don’t need to seek and because the interconnects have gotten faster. Throughput is higher because the interconnects have higher bandwidth.

Durability through replication, backup, and restore is powerful. PlanetScale Metal databases utilize semi-synchronous, row-based, MySQL replication from a primary to two or more replicas distributed across three availability zones.

Databases are backed up daily at minimum, with the option to add more frequent backups as needed. Backups are also validated and tested at the time of backup to make sure they work when you need them.

PlanetScale Metal is the go-to option for the most demanding, critical workloads. For databases where microseconds matter. I/O-optimized by default – it can handle anything you throw at it. And with Vitess under the hood, you’ll never have to worry about outgrowing it.