# Understanding Neon's object hierarchy

DevFeed: [Understanding Neon's object hierarchy](<https://devfeed.tech/articles/understanding-neon-s-object-hierarchy-5671.md>)

Original publisher: [Read original article](<https://neon.com/blog/neon-object-hierarchy>)

Author: Mahmoud Abdelwahab

Published: 2023-06-07T12:02:36Z

Content type: tutorial

Language: en

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

Topics: [Databases](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/databases.md>), [Serverless](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/serverless.md>), [cloud-infrastructure](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/cloud-infrastructure.md>)

Tags: [cloud-infrastructure](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/cloud-infrastructure.md>), [community](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/community.md>), [object](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/object.md>), [postgres](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/postgres.md>), [serverless](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/serverless.md>)

## AI overview

This tutorial introduces Neon's console object hierarchy and explains the cloud-native Postgres architecture behind Neon. It describes separating storage from compute to support independent scaling, fast compute startup and shutdown, and storage-layer operations such as backups and archiving.

## Source excerpt

To use Neon to its full potential, it is important to understand its object hierarchy. Before diving in, we will first go over the experience of provisioning a managed Postgres instance and why it was necessary to introduce a new architecture to make Postgres cloud-native. Tradit...