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Upgrading a 56TB database that's growing at 250GB per day with (nearly) no downtime

We had to upgrade our 56TB Aurora Postgres cluster by 31 July without taking Trigger.dev down. Instead of moving the database, we made the problem smaller: new runs and the control plane went to PlanetScale, and the old runs stayed behind.

By Daniel SuttonTrigger.dev Blog
Upgrading a 56TB database that's growing at 250GB per day with (nearly) no downtime

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Originally published by Trigger.dev Blog on Sep 28, 2026.

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