# Building the Future of On-Call: Why Velocity Moved from RDS to Neon

DevFeed: [Building the Future of On-Call: Why Velocity Moved from RDS to Neon](<https://devfeed.tech/articles/building-the-future-of-on-call-why-velocity-moved-from-rds-to-neon-5845.md>)

Original publisher: [Read original article](<https://neon.com/blog/velocity-future-on-call>)

Author: Carlota Soto

Published: 2025-04-01T00:36:28Z

Content type: article

Language: en

Sources: [Blog -- Neon Docs](<https://devfeed.tech/sources/blog-neon-docs.md>)

Topics: [Artificial Intelligence](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/ai.md>), [Databases](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/databases.md>), [incident](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/incident.md>), [Cloud](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/cloud.md>), [Scalability](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/scalability.md>), [Automation](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/automation.md>), [Provisioning](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/provisioning.md>), [Serverless](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/serverless.md>), [Architecture & Design](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/architecture-design.md>), [Amazon Web Services](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/aws.md>), [Azure](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/azure.md>)

Tags: [agentic-ai](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/agentic-ai.md>), [ai](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/ai.md>), [automation](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/automation.md>), [case-studies](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/case-studies.md>), [cloud](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/cloud.md>), [databases](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/databases.md>), [debug](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/debug.md>), [development](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/development.md>), [incident](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/incident.md>), [incident-response](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/incident-response.md>), [multi-cloud](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/multi-cloud.md>), [provisioning](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/provisioning.md>), [scalability](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/scalability.md>), [scale](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/scale.md>), [serverless](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/serverless.md>)

## AI overview

Velocity is building an AI-powered production engineer that uses agentic AI to surface evidence, correlate alerts, and help software teams investigate and resolve production incidents faster. The company moved from RDS to Neon for a serverless, multi-cloud database architecture supporting AWS and Azure, reducing manual provisioning and infrastructure management. Neon branching also provides lightweight database clones for testing schema changes, debugging, and validating migrations safely.

## Source excerpt

"We used RDS before, but the cost and manual effort of scaling it up and down was a pain. I also wanted one database solution across clouds--and Neon gave us that" (Tal Kain, Founder and CEO at Velocity) When production goes sideways at 2 a.m., the last thing an engineer wants is...