Case Study: Supabase achieves one-week regional infrastructure readiness with Pulumi

Supabase expands to 16 AWS regions in 1 week with Pulumi

Supabase, an open-source Postgres development platform, faced a critical scaling challenge as it experienced explosive growth. Their manual, single-region deployment process was a bottleneck that couldn't keep pace with customer demand for new regions and features. They needed a solution to enable rapid regional expansion and empower their engineering teams to manage their own infrastructure. They chose Pulumi to address these challenges.

By implementing Pulumi with TypeScript, Supabase unified its application and infrastructure code, eliminating context switching. The solution enabled a PR-based workflow with automated previews and single-click production deployments. The results were transformative: infrastructure readiness for a new region was reduced to approximately one week, and the number of active infrastructure contributors grew from 1-2 to over 40 engineers across the organization. Supabase now manages 80,000 Pulumi resources across 16 AWS regions, a massive increase from 30,000 just one year prior.

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