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Abdulkadir Gündüz
Abdulkadir Gündüz

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Spin Up Databases & Observability in Seconds with Shard

Most teams still spend minutes (sometimes hours) wiring databases and observability.

We thought that was… unnecessary.

With Shard, you can spin up production-ready infra in seconds — using just a few prompts or clicks.

⚡ Launch instantly

From a single flow, you can bring up:

PostgreSQL
MySQL
SQLite
SQL Server Express
MongoDB
Redis
Grafana
Prometheus

No manual setup. No tool juggling. No YAML nightmares.

🔄 Built-in sync & CDC

For PostgreSQL and MySQL, Shard includes:

Schema sync
Data sync
Change Data Capture (CDC)

All powered by a flow-based architecture — design your data workflows visually and run them reliably.

🧠 Not just provisioning

Shard also gives you:

Monitoring
Organization & team management
Unified control plane

Because spinning things up is easy — operating them safely is the hard part.

*Infrastructure shouldn’t be the bottleneck.
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We’re building Shard to make databases and observability move at the speed of your product. We look forward to your feedback.

👉 Try it: https://shard.ink

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I tried the product and it's really good. I created a PostgreSQL DB quickly and it worked. Does it have Elasticsearch?

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Abdulkadir Gündüz

No, ElasticSearch isn't currently available. We don't know what will happen in the future. we need to review ES's licensing terms.

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olivia

looks great , definitely going to give this a try

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Abdulkadir Gündüz

thanks

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devor

what is the storage size per instance in free packages?

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Abdulkadir Gündüz

If you choose Shard as your provider for databases, you'll get 1GB; if you choose Neon, you'll get 500MB.