Fork Your Database for Staging & Testing

Nov 18, 2025

Learn how to quickly create a fork of your Aiven for PostgreSQL instance to set up a safe staging or testing environment.

In this demo, we walk you through selecting your project and service, navigating to the backups & forking section, naming your new instance, choosing the cloud provider and plan, and finalising the fork to replicate your original database.

This approach allows you to test changes safely without affecting your production database, making development and QA workflows much more reliable.

Learn more about Aiven for PostgreSQL: https://aiven.io/postgresql
Step-by-step guide on service management and forking https://aiven.io/docs/platform/howto/list-service
You may also be interested in our video Set Up a Read-Replica for High Availability: https://www.youtube.com/watch

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