Neon

Neon is a managed Postgres service built on a storage layer that separates compute from data. Because the data layer is copy-on-write, the service can create a full database branch in seconds, and that branch starts as a pointer into the parent's history rather than a physical copy. The practical result is a database workflow that resembles Git. A team can branch production for a preview environment, run migrations against the branch, and throw it away without touching the parent. Point-in-time restore uses the same mechanism, so recovering to a moment before a bad migration does not require replaying a backup. Compute scales to zero when idle, which suits development and preview environments that sit unused most of the day. The tradeoff is cold-start latency on the first query after a suspend, and a connection model that expects a pooler for serverless clients.