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Looking to optimize your cloud footprint when it comes to Postgres? Andrew Ruffin (AMD) explains your options in his talk “Choose the Right Azure Infrastructure to Improve Postgres Performance by Over 60%” at POSETTE: An Event for Postgres 2026. Abstract: Don’t know where to start when it comes to choosing your Postgres infrastructure on Azure? Join this session to learn about the latest infrastructure options on Azure. You’ll come away with knowledge on how to quickly identify the hardware best suited for high Postgres performance at lower costs. Whether you’re already deploying Postgres on Azure or considering it, this session is suited for those who want to continuously improve the developer and end user experience while also keeping FinOps happy.
Andrew Ruffin is a Senior Product Manager at AMD with nearly a decade of experience in the semiconductor industry. He has worked in a variety of roles, including pricing strategy for AI products, ecosystem enabling for new memory and encryption technologies, and, most recently, launching and growing new AMD infrastructure on Microsoft Azure. Before moving to the hardware and software world, he worked in science and technology policy as a legislative aide in the U.S. Senate.
► Video chapters:
⏩ 00:00 – Music & introduction
⏩ 00:43 – AMD & Azure infrastructure overview
⏩ 02:43 – Finding AMD-powered VM options
⏩ 03:53 – VM families for PostgreSQL workloads
⏩ 07:36 – Open-source enabling & impact
⏩ 08:59 – Benchmark results and cost savings
⏩ 12:20 – IAAS vs PAAS deployment choices
⏩ 14:28 – Confidential compute & security
⏩ 17:06 – AI-ready features: pgvector, DiskANN, AVX-512
⏩ 21:04 – Key takeaways & resources
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