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title: Tiger Cloud | Tiger Data Docs
description: Learn about Tiger Cloud, a fully managed cloud database service built on TimescaleDB and PostgreSQL for time-series and analytics workloads
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Tiger Cloud runs TimescaleDB on PostgreSQL as a managed service. You use hypertables, hypercore, continuous aggregates, and hyperfunctions as usual, while backups, upgrades, scaling, and infrastructure are handled for you, along with tiered storage, high-availability replicas and read replicas, and observability in Tiger Console.

## What Tiger Cloud adds

On top of the core TimescaleDB capabilities, Tiger Cloud includes:

- **Tiered storage**: automatically move older data to low-cost object storage while keeping it queryable. This enables virtually unlimited data retention at a fraction of the cost of high-performance storage.
- **High-availability replicas**: automatic failover replicas that keep your service online if the primary instance becomes unavailable.
- **Read replicas**: offload read-heavy workloads like dashboards, reporting, and analytics queries to dedicated read replicas.
- **Built-in observability**: Tiger Console provides query-level insights, resource monitoring, and alerting without additional tooling.
- **Automated operations**: backups, PostgreSQL upgrades, TimescaleDB updates, and security patches are handled automatically.
- **Data connectors**: ingest data from sources like S3, Kafka, and PostgreSQL using built-in connectors, and export to Apache Iceberg for lakehouse integration.

## Available on AWS and Azure

Tiger Cloud runs on Amazon Web Services (AWS) and Microsoft Azure, with services available in regions across North America, Europe, Asia Pacific, and South America. See [supported regions](/docs/learn/tiger-cloud/regions/index.md) for the full list of available regions by cloud provider.

## Learn more

[Supported regions](/docs/learn/tiger-cloud/regions/index.md)

[Where Tiger Cloud services are available](/docs/learn/tiger-cloud/regions/index.md)

[Cloud-exclusive features](/docs/learn/tiger-cloud/cloud-exclusive-features/index.md)

[Capabilities only available in Tiger Cloud](/docs/learn/tiger-cloud/cloud-exclusive-features/index.md)

[Tiger Data architecture](/docs/learn/deep-dive/whitepaper/index.md)

[Deep dive into the platform architecture](/docs/learn/deep-dive/whitepaper/index.md)

[Feature comparison](/docs/get-started/feature-comparison/index.md)

[Compare features across Tiger Data products](/docs/get-started/feature-comparison/index.md)