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ElephantSQL Changelog

The Journey of ElephantSQL

Since the release of ElephantSQL in early 2014, the service has developed continuously. With the help of feedback from users we make sure to keep ElephantSQL secure, updated and simple for our users to use.

2024-02-27

End of Life Announcement

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2023-11-15

API keys can now be rotated programmatically.

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2023-06-26

Support for Azure region Norway East

2022-12-16

PostgreSQL major version upgrades is here!

2022-10-20

PostgreSQL version 15 is now available

2022-02-22

PostgreSQL version 14 is now available

2019-09-17

PostgreSQL version 9.5 and 9.6 are deprecated, oldest available version for new instances is PostgreSQL 10

2019-05-20

PostgreSQL version 12 and 13 are now available, both with and without follower

2019-05-20

Many new regions added for shared instances

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2019-05-15

Support for GCP Zürich

2019-05-10

Support for new the new region AWS Hongkong

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2019-04-16

New API documentation

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2019-04-11

Multi team and SAML role mapping support

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2019-02-01

Option to select when to do scheduled backups

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2019-02-01

Option to fork a new ElephanSQL instance from any PostgreSQL server

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2019-01-03

We welcome the new plans Simple Spider and Crazy Cat

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2018-12-21

Huge price cuts on dedicated PostgreSQL instances

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2018-12-21

Dedicated plan: Blissful Butterfly and Ruthless Rat added

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2018-12-12

GCP Finland supported

2018-12-12

The AWS Europe (Stockholm) supported

2018-11-20

Azure Australia supported!

2018-11-26

PostgreSQL v11 available

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2018-11-23

IBM Cloud Integration

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2018-08-14

Google Cloud Stackdriver Logging

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2018-08-14

AWS CloudWatch Logs integration

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2018-07-06

Terraform provider for ElephantSQL

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2018-05-25

GDPR compliant

2018-03-08

Released external metrics integration

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2018-02-22

Added VictorOps and OpsGenie integration as additional alternatives for alarm notifications

2018-02-22

Enable CPU, Memory usage and Disk space alarms

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2018-02-06

Added support for 3 new regions in AWS, EU Paris, AP Seoul and AP Mumbai

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2017-12-20

Added the ability to set team members permissions with ACL rules

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2017-05-22

Backups API - Made it possible to list, download, create and restore backups through our Backups API

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2017-05-12

Made it possible to ship PostgreSQL logs from ElephantSQL dedicated instances to Papertrail, Splunk, Loggly and Logentries

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2017-05-04

Enabled point in time restore

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2017-05-04

Proud to be the first SaaS option for PostgresSQL that have support for streaming replication across clouds

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2017-04-48

Option to create PostgreSQL High Availability (HA) plans

2017-03-15

New high performance PostgreSQL plan - Dramatic Dolphin

2017-01-20

Added ElephantSQL into three new regions in Google Cloud Platform (Western US, Eastern US, Northeastern Asia-Pacific)

2016-01-04

Remake of ElephantSQL control panel

2016-10-03

Added option for Two-factor authentication

2016-09-05

ElephantSQL API added so that you can create, update and delete ElephantSQL instances programmatically

2016-03-14

Added views for server metrics (CPU, disk and memory)

2015-11-13

GitHub login enabled

2015-11-12

Added support for team

2015-09-08

Released PostgreSQL browser tool for sql queries

2015-07-06

New high performance plan - Puffy Pigeon

2014-11-17

Google Compute Engine Integration

2014-11-17

Added Softlayer integration

2014-03-10

ElephantSQL entered the market - PostgreSQL as a Service