# Azure Database for PostgreSQL - Flexible Server optimization

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4 documented Azure Database for PostgreSQL - Flexible Server cost inefficiencies, each with how to detect it and how to fix it.

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4 documented Azure Database for PostgreSQL - Flexible Server cost inefficiencies, each with how to detect it and how to fix it.

## 4 inefficiencies

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- Azure Database for PostgreSQL - Flexible Server  CER-0148

### [Overprovisioned Azure Database for PostgreSQL Flexible Server](https://www.pointfive.co/efficiency-hub/inefficiencies/overprovisioned-azure-database-for-postgresql-flexible-server)

Azure Database for PostgreSQL - Flexible Server often defaults to general-purpose D-series VMs, which may be oversized for many production or development workloads. Many PostgreSQL workloads do not need high sustained CPU and can run on...

Databases

- Azure Database for PostgreSQL - Flexible Server  CER-0443

### [High Availability Enabled on Non-Production PostgreSQL Flexible Servers](https://www.pointfive.co/efficiency-hub/inefficiencies/high-availability-enabled-on-non-production-postgresql-flexible-servers)

High availability on Azure Database for PostgreSQL flexible server provisions a standby replica, in another availability zone (zone-redundant) or the same zone (same-zone), with the same vCores, storage and network configuration as the...

Databases

- Azure Database for PostgreSQL - Flexible Server  CER-0444

### [Non-Production PostgreSQL Flexible Servers Running Outside Working Hours](https://www.pointfive.co/efficiency-hub/inefficiencies/non-production-postgresql-flexible-servers-running-outside-working-hours)

Development, test, QA and demo servers on Azure Database for PostgreSQL flexible server are usually needed only during working hours, yet many run 24x7 with no stop schedule. Compute is billed for every hour the server exists in a running...

Databases

- Azure Database for PostgreSQL - Flexible Server  CER-0445

### [Missing Reserved Capacity for Steady-State PostgreSQL Flexible Servers](https://www.pointfive.co/efficiency-hub/inefficiencies/missing-reserved-capacity-for-steady-state-postgresql-flexible-servers)

Production Azure Database for PostgreSQL flexible servers typically run around the clock for years, yet many estates pay the pay-as-you-go vCore rate for all of them. Reservations and savings plans are often bought for virtual machines...

Databases

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