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Microsoft launches Horizon DB, a fully managed PostgreSQL service on Azure built for high-availability scale-out.
“Horizon is delivering 3x throughput, uh, compared to any self-managed PostgreSQL SQL setup.”
Microsoft announced Horizon DB at Build, a fully managed, zone-redundant PostgreSQL service offering 128TB per cluster, 15 read replicas, and a claimed 3x throughput over self-managed setups, plus GPU acceleration for Fabric's data warehouse. The framing emphasizes databases becoming mission-critical as AI agents constantly query data, but this is primarily a cloud infrastructure product launch rather than a frontier AI signal.