Managed Postgres — fr-par-1

Managed PostgreSQL, operated in France.

Copy-on-write branches, automatic suspend, end-to-end encryption. Neon data plane, Scaleway infrastructure, team and support in Paris.

Create a project Getting-started guide

No credit card — PostgreSQL 17.4 — pgvector, PostGIS, TimescaleDB

418ms

Average wake-up of a suspended compute, on connect. A sleeping database costs only its storage.

28 days — 1,128 wake-ups — measured on Aug 4, 2026

0.43 s

Branch creation, p50

6,913 branches

99.9725%

API and control-plane availability

current quarter

8.21 GB

Storage billed for four branches of an 8 GB project

no duplication

Jun 2

Last incident, write latency, 22 min

reported in real time on the status page

operational Measured on Aug 4, 2026 at 06:00 UTC — Status page

§ 01 — BRANCHES

A branch does not duplicate your data.

A copy-on-write fork points to the same storage and only writes the modified pages. So you can branch production on every pull request, run the migration for real, then delete the branch.

main~~production — 8 GB~~

pr-482 — alembic migration~~created in 0.41 s — 4.2 MB delta — ~45 min active compute — deleted after 3 h 12~~

restore-0730 — rollback~~LSN 0/3A9F1C8 — 11 MB delta~~

Billed storage : 8.205 GBDuplication : noneDeletion : immediateCost of branch pr-482 : €0.04

DATA RESIDENCY
PROJECT my-app — AUG 4, 2026
DOCUMENT GENERATED BY THE API

§ 02 — RESIDENCY

Location, layer by layer.

"Hosted in France" is not proof. Every project exposes the location of each of its layers and the matching attestation, queryable via the API and exportable for an audit. Here is the response for a production project.

Layer	Operator	Site	Attestation
compute	Scaleway	fr-par-1 — Vitry-sur-Seine (DC3)	ISO/IEC 27001 · HDS
storage (pageserver)	Scaleway	fr-par-1 — Vitry-sur-Seine (DC3)	ISO/IEC 27001 · HDS
wal / safekeepers ×3	Scaleway	fr-par-1 az-a / az-b / az-c	ISO/IEC 27001 · HDS
backups (Object Storage, AES-256)	Scaleway	fr-par-1 — Vitry-sur-Seine	ISO/IEC 27001 · HDS
logs and metrics	Scaleway	fr-par-2 — Saint-Ouen-l'Aumône (DC5)	90-day retention — no personal data
control plane	Lampion SAS	Paris, France	RCS Paris

Scaleway: ISO/IEC 27001 and HDS certified — SecNumCloud qualification in progress (2025). GET /v1/projects/{id}/residency — versioned, timestamped, exportable as PDF.

pgvectorPostGISTimescaleDBpg_cronpg_stat_statementspgcryptopostgis_rasterpg_trgmhstoreuuid-ossppgroutingplv8pg_partmancitextltreeand 60 more

§ 03 — THE REST

What Lampion does, without the theatrics.

The full list is in the documentation. This one is here to be skimmed.

Scale to zero: Suspend after five minutes of inactivity, wake on connect, billing on active time.

Read replicas: Read replica on the same storage, with no duplication cost.

PITR: Restore to the second or to the LSN, into a new branch.

Pooling: PgBouncer in transaction mode, 10,000 connections per endpoint.

Encryption: AES-256 at rest, TLS 1.3 in transit, CMEK on Souverain.

Extensions: pgvector, PostGIS, TimescaleDB, pg_cron, pg_stat_statements, and 60 more.

Access: SCRAM-SHA-256, IP allowlists, per-branch RBAC, SAML and OIDC SSO.

Masking: Anonymization rules applied when a branch is created.

SQL Editor: History, execution plans and query replay in the console.

Observability: Prometheus metrics, webhooks, structured logs, Datadog export.

Migration: From RDS, Supabase, Neon or a dump, with no application downtime.

Automation: REST API, CLI, MCP server, Terraform provider.

Full documentation

§ 04 — GET STARTED

Three commands.

The account is free and deletion is immediate. Nothing to configure before your first connection.

bashproject, branch, connection

# install and authenticate
$ brew install lampion/tap/lampion && lampion auth login

# create a project, region fr-par-1 by default
$ lampion projects create --name my-app
  → ep-morning-frost-84721.fr-par-1.lampion.cloud

# test branch from production
$ lampion branches create --from main --name staging
  → created in 0.41s — psql "$(lampion cs staging)"

Over HTTP: POST api.lampion.cloud/v1/projects — API reference

console.lampion.cloud / my-app / branchesscreenshot

The console as it is today.

§ 05 — PRICING

Usage-based billing.

You pay for active compute and the storage actually used. A suspended database costs only its storage. The line-by-line comparison is on the pricing page.

Free€0

Three projects, 512 MB, 0.25 CU, 3 branches per project.

Get started

Startupfrom €29 / month

Compute €0.22/CU-h, up to 8 CU, unlimited branches, SSO, IP allowlists, 99.9% SLA, email support.

Get started

Souveraincustom quote

Dedicated isolation, CMEK, 99.95% SLA with penalties, HDS and SecNumCloud, dedicated on-call, payment by transfer.

Storage €0.40 per GB per month — plan comparison

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