Nearly Every Managed Postgres Service Ships with PgBouncer—Here’s the Full List
The author audited 20+ well‑known managed PostgreSQL providers and discovered that every viable service (all except IBM Cloud and Oracle) includes a built‑in connection pooler, most often PgBouncer. That ubiquity makes pooling de‑facto essential infrastructure, even though PostgreSQL still lacks native pooling, so teams must still understand and configure the external pooler.