Crunchy Bridge

Crunchy Bridge, offered by Crunchy Data, is a fully managed cloud Postgres solution aimed at businesses of various sizes, from hobby projects to startups and enterprise organizations. According to the vendor, Crunchy Bridge caters to software engineers/developers, database administrators (DBAs), IT professionals, technology startups, and enterprise organizations.

Key Features

Fully Managed Cloud Postgres: According to the vendor, Crunchy Bridge offers a fully managed cloud Postgres solution with easy provisioning. Users can get started by connecting to an isolated instance using a connection string.

Scalability and High Availability: Crunchy Bridge allows for in-place resizing, which the vendor claims enables users to easily scale up their memory or storage. It also supports scaling out with read replicas and provides cross-zone automated failover for high availability.

Database Insights and Monitoring: Crunchy Bridge provides valuable insights into key metrics for your database, including CPU, IOPS, connections, and storage resources. The vendor states that it also offers monitoring capabilities to ensure optimal database performance.

Flexible Deployment Options: Users can deploy Crunchy Bridge via a user-friendly dashboard, API, or CLI, according to the vendor. They can manage the solution using their existing tools and processes, making it convenient for developers.

Postgres Expert Support: Crunchy Bridge offers a dedicated support team of Postgres experts who provide thorough and timely responses, according to the vendor. Users can expect hands-on assistance without waiting in support queues or ticket escalations.

Transparent and Simple Pricing: Crunchy Bridge follows a predictable pay-as-you-go model with prorated billing by the minute for compute and storage, according to the vendor. There are no additional costs for networking or ingress/egress.

Cloud Security Best Practices: Crunchy Bridge ensures the highest level of security and compliance with Crunchy Certified Postgres, according to the vendor. It also provides single tenant isolation, SOC 2 certification, HIPAA compliance for healthcare data, and encryption at rest and in transit.

Modern Postgres and Upgrades: Crunchy Bridge allows users to deploy on the latest Postgres releases and offers in-place upgrades to major versions, according to the vendor. It includes minor versions and bug patches, ensuring users have access to the most up-to-date features and improvements.

Team and Account Management: Crunchy Bridge offers flexible team management, multi-factor authentication, built-in single sign-on (SSO), and full audit logs for easy account management, according to the vendor.

Cloud Agnostic and Migrations: Crunchy Bridge is cloud agnostic, allowing users to run it in any public cloud and facilitating easy migration and recovery to different clouds, according to the vendor. It also provides 1-on-1 migration assistance and data replication into Crunchy Bridge.