Percona: Transparent Data Encryption (TDE) for Postgres | KubeCon NA 2025

Описание: Data-at-rest encryption has long required enterprise licensing in the Postgres ecosystem—until now. In this exclusive interview from KubeCon + CloudNativeCon North America 2025, Paul Nashawaty speaks with Percona’s Blair and Michael about their fully open-source Transparent Data Encryption (TDE) capability for Postgres, enabling PCI DSS and financial compliance without proprietary vendor fees or lock-in.

Percona’s TDE ships today in Percona Server for Postgres with an active upstreaming effort to bring encryption-at-rest to the broader community edition. With evolving European data sovereignty regulations and accelerated PCI DSS timelines, organizations demanded immediate TDE availability—prompting Percona to deliver ahead of event schedules so customers could move into production as soon as the feature was ready.

Beyond compliance, the discussion explores real enterprise priorities: reliability, performance, enterprise-grade SLAs, and freedom to choose support providers. The team also dives into Postgres’s expanding role in AI workloads—especially vector search—and the growing maturity of running stateful databases on Kubernetes as organizations modernize their operational models.

Core Value Proposition:
✅ Open-source Postgres TDE — Full data-at-rest encryption without enterprise licensing
🔐 PCI DSS & financial compliance — Immediate availability to meet urgent timelines
🏢 Enterprise SLAs without lock-in — Support optional, software fully open source
🌍 Sovereignty-ready — Aligns with European regulatory shifts and broader compliance frameworks
🤖 AI-ready Postgres — Vector search positioned as a foundational capability
☸️ Kubernetes modernization — Mature operational patterns for stateful workloads
⚡ Reliability first — Availability, performance, and fast incident resolution remain top customer demands

This conversation highlights how Percona is bringing enterprise-grade compliance, support, and modernization paths to Postgres—without locking customers into proprietary ecosystems—while enabling Postgres to evolve as a unified data engine for cloud-native and AI-driven architectures.

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