A Practical Guide to Azure PostgreSQL: Migration, Replicas, and Tuning ☁️🐘

In this post, I summarize my hands-on experience completing the Microsoft Applied Skills: Configure and migrate to Azure Database for PostgreSQL assessment.

Using Azure Portal, pgAdmin, and PostgreSQL, I walked through the core architectural tasks of setting up, securing, migrating, replicating, and optimizing a managed relational database in the cloud.

1. Security & Monitoring Setup

Authentication: Configured dual authentication on Azure Database for PostgreSQL Flexible Server (psql63693133), enabling Microsoft Entra ID alongside native PostgreSQL authentication.

Network Isolation: Isolated server traffic within VNET1/subnet1 by creating a Private Endpoint (psql63693133-pe).