Product overview — Relational Databases High

Google AlloyDB for PostgreSQL

GCP flagship Postgres-compatible managed relational database, typically evaluated by teams building on Google Cloud who want a managed Postgres core.

Sources linked — see verification below.

Freshness & verification

Last updated 2026-02-09 Intel generated 2026-01-14 3 sources linked

Who is this best for?

This is the fastest way to decide whether Google AlloyDB for PostgreSQL is in the right neighborhood.

Best for
  • GCP-first teams needing managed Postgres-compatible OLTP
  • Organizations with database ownership maturity
  • Teams that want a managed relational baseline aligned with GCP governance patterns
  • Workloads where Postgres compatibility is desired with cloud-managed operations
Who should avoid
  • You need distributed SQL resilience and horizontal scaling across regions
  • You primarily need developer branching workflows more than cloud alignment
  • You need maximum portability and want to minimize hyperscaler ecosystem coupling

Sources & verification

Pricing and behavioral information comes from public documentation and structured research. When information is incomplete or volatile, we prefer to say so rather than guess.

  1. https://cloud.google.com/alloydb ↗
  2. https://cloud.google.com/alloydb/pricing ↗
  3. https://cloud.google.com/alloydb/docs ↗