# Supavisor: Scaling Postgres to 1 Million Connections

DevFeed: [Supavisor: Scaling Postgres to 1 Million Connections](<https://devfeed.tech/articles/supavisor-scaling-postgres-to-1-million-connections-689.md>)

Original publisher: [Read original article](<https://supabase.com/blog/supavisor-1-million>)

Author: Egor Romanov; Chase Granberry; Stanislav Muzhyk

Published: 2023-08-11T07:00:00Z

Content type: article

Language: en

Sources: [Supabase Blog](<https://devfeed.tech/sources/supabase-blog.md>)

Topics: [Supabase](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/supabase.md>), [benchmarking](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/benchmarking.md>), [Elixir](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/elixir.md>), [Database](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/database.md>), [Multi-tenancy](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/multi-tenancy.md>), [Latency](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/latency.md>), [k6](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/k6.md>), [Terraform](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/terraform.md>), [Grafana](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/grafana.md>), [Prometheus](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/prometheus.md>), [Amazon EC2](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/amazon-ec2.md>), [Amazon Web Services](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/aws.md>)

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## AI overview

Supavisor is a scalable, cloud-native Postgres connection pooler built in Elixir for multi-tenant workloads. Supabase benchmarked it under load and reports support for up to one million concurrent connections, with a single 16-core instance reaching 250,000 connections and processing 20,000 queries per second in the described baseline test.

## Source excerpt

Supavisor is a scalable, cloud-native Postgres connection pooler. We connected a million clients to it to see how it performs.