Changelog

AWS Datastores

Provision Postgres and Redis datastores in your own AWS cloud using Porter.

Shankar Radhakrishnan
July 29, 2024
1 min read

Hello and welcome back to the Porter changelog! We’ve been busy building new features for Porter that we're super excited to share. Every day of this week, we’ll be highlighting major features we’ve recently launched. For today, let’s cover provisioning datastores on AWS via Porter:


All users who provision an EKS cluster with AWS can now also provision a datastore instance, straight from the Porter dashboard. This includes databases like RDS and Aurora, along with Elasticache. VPC peering, command line access, and credential injection are all auto-managed on top of RDS and Elasticache.

For datastores provisioned on AWS through Porter, we’ll take care of VPC peering, so networking issues like CIDR range or IP range conflicts don’t occur, and create an environment group that has all the DB connection strings to inject into your applications so your database and applications can talk to each other. 

The Porter team can also manage certificates, security patches, version upgrades, and ensuring secure access. While all of these actions will be productized and occur automatically in the future (like with EKS and application management, where we're responsible for CVE patches, version upgrades, and much more), feel free to reach out over Intercom on the Porter dashboard for any support questions related to datastore management.

It’s also worth noting that Porter doesn’t charge for datastore management, so users’ only cost will be for the AWS instances spun up.

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