PlanetScale Metal is the fastest way to run databases in AWS or GCP. With blazing fast NVMe drives, you can unlock unlimited IOPS, ultra low latencies, and the highest throughput for your workloads.
We've just made PlanetScale even faster. Now your database can run on NVMe drives, which delivers essentially limitless IOPs. This means lower latency, higher performance and lower cost.
About PlanetScale Metal on Product Hunt
“The fastest way to run databases in AWS or GCP”
PlanetScale Metal launched on Product Hunt on March 12th, 2025 and earned 137 upvotes and 2 comments, placing #13 on the daily leaderboard. PlanetScale Metal is the fastest way to run databases in AWS or GCP. With blazing fast NVMe drives, you can unlock unlimited IOPS, ultra low latencies, and the highest throughput for your workloads.
On the analytics side, PlanetScale Metal competes within Developer Tools and Database — topics that collectively have 513.1k followers on Product Hunt. The dashboard above tracks how PlanetScale Metal performed against the three products that launched closest to it on the same day.
Who hunted PlanetScale Metal?
PlanetScale Metal was hunted by Mike Coutermarsh. A “hunter” on Product Hunt is the community member who submits a product to the platform — uploading the images, the link, and tagging the makers behind it. Hunters typically write the first comment explaining why a product is worth attention, and their followers are notified the moment they post. Around 79% of featured launches on Product Hunt are self-hunted by their makers, but a well-known hunter still acts as a signal of quality to the rest of the community. See the full all-time top hunters leaderboard to discover who is shaping the Product Hunt ecosystem.
Mike Coutermarsh