Webinar | Optimizing Postgres Cloud Strategy: Capacity Planning and Selecting the Right Instance Size

With Postgres powering some of the world’s most demanding workloads, capacity planning and choosing the right instance size has become essential for achieving performance, scalability, and cost-efficiency in cloud environments.

To ensure your Postgres deployments run seamlessly and cost-effectively, you need strategies tailored to your unique workloads.

On February 26, 2025, at 3 PM GMT, Umair Shahid, Founder at Stormatics, led a comprehensive session on “Optimizing Postgres Cloud Strategy: Capacity Planning and Selecting the Right Instance Size.”

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• Understanding Capacity Planning: Key concepts, role of capacity planning in cloud environments, identifying key business and technical needs.
• Instance Sizing: Instance types, configurations, and factors to consider when selecting instance sizes.
• Cost Management: Balancing resources to optimize performance while controlling cloud spend.
• Common Pitfalls and Solutions: Strategies to mitigate unpredictable workloads and budget overruns.

Who should watch?

This session is ideal for database administrators, developers, and IT leaders managing critical systems who aim to enhance Postgres reliability and availability.

About the Speaker

Umair Shahid

Founder, Stormatics

Umair is a trusted expert in the Postgres community with 20 years of experience, renowned for sharing innovative ideas and leading advancements in database solutions. He helps businesses make their databases fast, reliable, and cost-efficient.  With Postgres, he ensures your data is safe, your system runs smoothly, and everything grows as your business grows

At Stormatics, Umair leads a talented team that solves complex problems, secures databases, and enhances their performance. Recognizing that every business is unique, the company creates tailored solutions to meet specific needs, whether it is making things faster, stronger, or ready for the future.

Umair shares his expertise at international conferences, through webinars, and in training sessions, empowering others to tackle challenging Postgres issues. His previous experience with commercial Postgres has spanned roles related to professional services and product management in major pure-play Postgres organizations like EDB, 2ndQuadrant, OpenSCG, & Percona