Every managed Postgres option in Canada, and who owns it.
Most of the big managed Postgres services now have a Canadian region, usually Montréal, sometimes Toronto, Calgary or Quebec City. Almost all of them belong to US companies. Below is every option we found, with the city, the owner, the entry price and point-in-time recovery, each taken from the vendor’s own pages.
Facts checked
Every option, side by side
Prices are each vendor’s lowest listed option for a small database, in the currency they publish, and are not directly comparable: the plans differ in memory, storage and what they are meant for. Storage is extra unless the row says so.
| Provider | Canadian region (city) | In Quebec? | Owner | Entry price as listed | Point-in-time recovery |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Canner | Montréal | Yes | Canner (Canada), no US affiliate | Free on Starter; dedicated instance $9/mo per project | 1–35 days, on the dedicated instance |
| Amazon RDS / Aurora † † | Montréal (ca-central-1), Calgary (ca-west-1) | Montréal yes, Calgary no | Amazon (US) | RDS db.t4g.micro in Montréal US$0.018/h, about US$13/mo | Yes, within the backup retention |
| Azure Database for PostgreSQL † † | Quebec City (Canada East), Toronto (Canada Central) | Quebec City yes, Toronto no | Microsoft (US) | B1MS about US$14.89/mo in Quebec City, US$13.51 in Toronto | Yes, 7 to 35 days |
| Google Cloud SQL † † | Montréal, Toronto | Montréal yes, Toronto no | Alphabet (US) | Canadian prices not published on the main page; check Google’s calculator | Yes |
| Supabase † † | Montréal (AWS) | Yes | Supabase (US) | Pro US$25/mo | Paid add-on, US$100/mo per 7 days |
| Crunchy Bridge † † | Montréal (AWS, Google), Toronto (Azure, Google) | Montréal yes | Snowflake (US) since June 2025 | Production plans from US$70/mo (US East listing) | Yes, 10 days |
| PlanetScale Postgres † † | Montréal (AWS, Google) | Yes | PlanetScale (US) | PS-5 listed at $5/mo (non-HA) | Backups through WAL; check plan |
| Aiven for PostgreSQL † † | Through AWS, Azure, Google, DigitalOcean and OVHcloud regions in Canada | Some (Montréal, Beauharnois, Quebec City) | Aiven (Finland) | From US$5/mo; not confirmed that entry plans run in Canada | On higher plans |
| DigitalOcean † † | Toronto (TOR1) | No | DigitalOcean (US) | $15.15/mo | Last 7 days |
| OVHcloud † † | Beauharnois (BHS) | Yes | OVHcloud (France) | About CA$87/mo per node | Included |
| Fly.io Managed Postgres † | Toronto (yyz) | No | Fly.io (US) | Not checked | Not checked |
| Neon † † | None | — | Databricks (US) | — | — |
| Heroku Postgres † | Montréal, Private Spaces only | Yes, Private Spaces only | Salesforce (US) | Enterprise pricing | — |
| Render, Railway † † | None | — | US companies | — | — |
† Competitor details come from each vendor’s own published pages on the dates shown; prices and plans change, so check the vendor before you decide. Amazon RDS / Aurora (2026-10-29) · Amazon RDS / Aurora (2026-10-29) · Azure Database for PostgreSQL (2026-10-29) · Azure Database for PostgreSQL (2026-10-29) · Google Cloud SQL (2026-10-29) · Google Cloud SQL (2026-10-29) · Supabase (2026-10-29) · Supabase (2026-10-29) · Crunchy Bridge (2026-10-29) · Crunchy Bridge (2026-10-29) · PlanetScale Postgres (2026-10-29) · PlanetScale Postgres (2026-09-26) · Aiven for PostgreSQL (2026-10-29) · Aiven for PostgreSQL (2026-10-29) · DigitalOcean (2026-10-29) · DigitalOcean (2026-10-29) · OVHcloud (2026-10-29) · OVHcloud (2026-10-29) · Fly.io Managed Postgres (2026-10-29) · Neon (2026-10-29) · Neon (2026-10-29) · Heroku Postgres (2026-10-29) · Render, Railway (2026-10-29) · Render, Railway (2026-10-29)
A Canadian region is not Canadian ownership
Picking ca-central-1 keeps the bytes in Montréal. It does not change who runs the service. A provider incorporated in the US can be ordered by a US court to hand over data it controls, wherever the data is stored. That is the US CLOUD Act, and it applies to every US-owned row in the table, region or not.
Quebec’s Law 25 adds a second question: where the data is. Before personal information is communicated outside Quebec, the organization has to assess the privacy risks (section 17). A Toronto, Calgary or US region is outside Quebec. A Montréal or Quebec City region keeps the data in Quebec, but a backup or replica kept outside Quebec is covered by the same section. Our Law 25 guide goes through it.
How to choose
- You need data in Quebec and a Canadian owner: Canner and OVHcloud are the only rows that are not US-owned with a Quebec location, and OVHcloud is French.
- You need high availability or read replicas: RDS, Aurora, Azure, Cloud SQL and Crunchy Bridge offer them. Canner does not (honest limits).
- You already run on one cloud: use that cloud’s Montréal region and do the Law 25 assessment for it.
- You want Postgres next to your app, in one bill: Canner gives every project a database, with the dedicated instance for $9 a month when you need point-in-time recovery.
Questions
Which managed Postgres services have a Canadian region?
Amazon RDS and Aurora (Montréal, Calgary), Azure Database for PostgreSQL (Quebec City, Toronto), Google Cloud SQL (Montréal, Toronto), Supabase (Montréal), Crunchy Bridge, PlanetScale Postgres, Aiven, DigitalOcean (Toronto), OVHcloud (Beauharnois), Fly.io (Toronto) and Canner (Montréal). Neon, Render and Railway have none; Heroku has Montréal only for Private Spaces.
Does Neon have a Canadian region?
No. Neon’s regions are in the US, Frankfurt, London, Singapore, Sydney and São Paulo. Neon belongs to Databricks.
Is a Montréal region enough for Law 25?
It keeps the data in Quebec, which matters for section 17. Backups or replicas kept in another region still fall under section 17, and the provider’s US parent is still subject to US orders. See the Law 25 guide.
Which options are Canadian-owned?
Of the services in the table, only Canner. ThinkOn is Canadian but does not sell a public managed Postgres service.
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