Changelog
November 21, 2024
Datastores Revamp, Aurora Fast Clones for Preview Environments, and Non-HA Aurora Clusters
Shankar Radhakrishnan
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For the second-to-last changelog of the year, we have some key updates around Porter-managed datastores.
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Datastores Revamp
We've streamlined the dashboard - users will now find all datastores under the Add-ons tab.
When spinning up new RDS databases, users have way more flexibility: more options for resources, storage size, Postgres version, and the ability to choose database and user names.
Aurora Fast Clones for Preview Environments
Rather than the slow process of restoring production backups to a fresh Postgres instance, users can now use AWS Aurora Fast Cloning to instantly spin up preview environments with a database that mirrors production data.
Non-HA Aurora Clusters
Previously, all Porter-provisioned Aurora clusters included both reader and writer instances for high availability. Users can now choose single-instance Aurora clusters to reduce costs where high availability isn't critical.
