--- title: Introducing PlanetScale Metal: Enhanced Performance and... description: PlanetScale Metal is a high-performance, cost-effective SQL database solution designed for AWS and GCP. By utilizing locally-attached NVMe SSD drives, it... canonical: https://daily.dev/posts/introducing-planetscale-metal-enhanced-performance-and-cost-effectiveness-3egza7qgj twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:site: @dailydotdev og:type: website og:site_name: daily.dev og:title: Introducing PlanetScale Metal: Enhanced Performance and Cost-Effectiveness | daily.dev og:description: PlanetScale Metal is a high-performance, cost-effective SQL database solution designed for AWS and GCP. By utilizing locally-attached NVMe SSD drives, it... og:url: https://daily.dev/posts/introducing-planetscale-metal-enhanced-performance-and-cost-effectiveness-3egza7qgj og:image: https://api.daily.dev/og/posts/3EGZa7qGJ.png og:image:alt: Introducing PlanetScale Metal: Enhanced Performance and Cost-Effectiveness og:image:width: 1200 og:image:height: 630 og:locale: en --- > ## Documentation Index > Fetch the complete documentation index at: https://daily.dev/llms.txt > Use this file to discover all available pages before exploring further. # Introducing PlanetScale Metal: Enhanced Performance and Cost-Effectiveness **[Collections](https://daily.dev/sources/collections)** · 2 min read · 1 upvotes · 0 comments ## Summary PlanetScale Metal is a high-performance, cost-effective SQL database solution designed for AWS and GCP. By utilizing locally-attached NVMe SSD drives, it achieves substantial performance improvements with lower latencies and higher throughput. Built on Vitesse, it integrates compute and storage efficiently, minimizing network latencies. Companies like Cash App and Intercom have experienced significant performance enhancements and cost savings using PlanetScale Metal. ## Content # PlanetScale Metal: The Fastest and Most Cost-Effective SQL Database on AWS and GCP PlanetScale has revolutionized cloud database performance with the introduction of PlanetScale Metal, offering an unmatched solution for running databases on AWS and GCP. PlanetScale Metal leverages locally-attached NVMe SSD drives, which provide effectively unlimited IOPS, ultra-low latencies, and the highest throughput required for demanding workloads. ## Performance and Efficiency The incorporation of NVMe drives ensures substantial performance improvements by reducing latency and enhancing throughput. This cutting-edge technology allows PlanetScale Metal to outperform standard configurations, offering better performance per dollar. Its infrastructure is built on Vitesse, originally developed at YouTube, which excels in scaling MySQL databases efficiently by integrating compute and storage at a fundamental level, thus eliminating traditional network latencies. ## Durability and Cost-Effectiveness PlanetScale Metal maintains data durability through semi-synchronous replication. Its cost-effective nature is spotlighted by real-world applications, which have shown significant query latency reductions and cost savings. This solution is competitively priced, potentially saving users up to six times compared to other alternatives while still providing exceptional performance benefits. ## Real-World Success Several high-profile customers, including Cash App, Intercom, and Depot, have reported remarkable improvements in their database performance after switching to PlanetScale Metal. This reinforces the platform's practicality and its ability to meet the stringent demands of large enterprises. ## Conclusion PlanetScale Metal stands out as the fastest way to run SQL databases on AWS and GCP. Its use of NVMe SSD drives provides unparalleled performance, making it an ideal choice for businesses seeking both high speed and cost-efficiency in their database operations. ## Similar posts on daily.dev - [Don’t just attend KubeCon \+ CloudNativeCon, Merge Forward your experience\!](https://daily.dev/posts/don-t-just-attend-kubecon-cloudnativecon-merge-forward-your-experience--l0rpp73x8) · CNCF · 1 upvotes · 0 comments - [Announcing H2 2026 KCDs](https://daily.dev/posts/announcing-h2-2026-kcds-m96goajm1) · CNCF · 1 upvotes · 0 comments - [Two months of Open Community Groups](https://daily.dev/posts/two-months-of-open-community-groups-asf52zhbs) · CNCF · 0 upvotes · 0 comments - [CNCF Unveils Schedule for KubeCon \+ CloudNativeCon Europe 2026](https://daily.dev/posts/cncf-unveils-schedule-for-kubecon-cloudnativecon-europe-2026-ikhcoa5cb) · CNCF · 2 upvotes · 0 comments - [CNCF Debuts KubeCon \+ CloudNativeCon Japan 2026 Schedule](https://daily.dev/posts/cncf-debuts-kubecon-cloudnativecon-japan-2026-schedule-xp5pyudub) · CNCF · 1 upvotes · 0 comments --- Tags: [#cloud](https://daily.dev/tags/cloud), [#aws](https://daily.dev/tags/aws), [#performance](https://daily.dev/tags/performance), [#database](https://daily.dev/tags/database), [#gcp](https://daily.dev/tags/gcp) [View this post on daily.dev](https://daily.dev/posts/introducing-planetscale-metal-enhanced-performance-and-cost-effectiveness-3egza7qgj) ```json {"@context":"https://schema.org","@graph":[{"@type":"Organization","@id":"https://daily.dev/#organization","name":"daily.dev","url":"https://daily.dev","logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://daily.dev/apple-touch-icon.png","width":180,"height":180},"sameAs":["https://twitter.com/dailydotdev","https://github.com/dailydotdev","https://www.linkedin.com/company/daily-dev-ltd"]},{"@type":"WebSite","@id":"https://daily.dev/#website","url":"https://daily.dev","name":"daily.dev","publisher":{"@id":"https://daily.dev/#organization"},"potentialAction":{"@type":"SearchAction","target":{"@type":"EntryPoint","urlTemplate":"https://daily.dev/search?q={search_term_string}"},"query-input":"required name=search_term_string"}}]} {"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"TechArticle","headline":"Introducing PlanetScale Metal: Enhanced Performance and Cost-Effectiveness","url":"https://daily.dev/posts/introducing-planetscale-metal-enhanced-performance-and-cost-effectiveness-3egza7qgj","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://daily.dev/posts/introducing-planetscale-metal-enhanced-performance-and-cost-effectiveness-3egza7qgj"},"datePublished":"2025-03-11T15:05:06.858Z","dateModified":"2025-03-12T07:06:36.644Z","description":"PlanetScale Metal is a high-performance, cost-effective SQL database solution designed for AWS and GCP. 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