Today we are announcing the general availability of an entirely new class of nodes available on PlanetScale: Metal.
What is Metal?
Metal instances are powered by locally-attached NVMe SSD drives and fundamentally change the performance/cost ratio for hosting relational databases on AWS and GCP — with unlimited I/O on every M- cluster type.
Metal has been in production for 3 months with some of our customers, and it has served over 5 trillion queries across 5 petabytes of storage. Workloads have seen as much as a 65% drop in p99 query latency, alongside 53% cost savings compared to Amazon Aurora.
And it's now available to everyone, today. No waitlist, no previews.
Customers on Metal
Now let's hand this launch over to some of our customers to share their experiences:
- Block: Cash App on PlanetScale Metal
- Intercom: Evolving Intercom's Database Infrastructure: A Progress Update
- Depot: 8x faster queries on PlanetScale Metal
- PlanetScale just made the fastest SQL database ever
- Upgrading PlanetScale Query Insights to Metal
If you want to learn more about how we built Metal, we wrote about it here.
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