Database Reference
In-Depth Information
Production-tier technical characterization
The Standard, Premium, and Enterprise plans are offered for production applications that
require certain operating characteristics based on multitenancy architectures, CPU, RAM,
and IO. These characteristics can be more easily understood with the help of the following
table:
Plan
vCPU RAM
Disk Size Connection Limit PIOPs Multitenant
Standard 0
2
1 GB 64 GB
120
200
Yes
Premium 0
Standard 2
2
3.5 GB 256 GB 400
200
Yes
Premium 2
Standard 4
2
15 GB 512 GB 500
1000 No
Premium 4
Standard 5
4
30 GB 1 TB
500
2000 No
Premium 5
Standard 6
8
60 GB 1 TB
500
3000 No
Premium 6
Standard 7
Premium 7
16
120 GB 1 TB
500
4000 No
Enterprise 7
Enterprise 8 32
240 GB 1 TB
500
4000 No
All plans run a 64-bit architecture, which ensures the best performance for the internal op-
erations of Postgres. Heroku Postgres runs on a virtual infrastructure provided by Amazon
AWS EC2.
