Fresh off a $105 million funding round, NoSQL startup Couchbase Inc. today announced the general availability of its fully managed Couchbase Cloud database service on Amazon Web Services.

Couchbase is a NoSQL database for storing structured, semistructured and unstructured information. It’s used by about a third of the Fortune 100 as well as other firms. The database can run in a variety of environments, from cloud instances to mobile devices, and promises to provide two to 20 times the performance of competing NoSQL systems in some scenarios.

Couchbase Cloud is a managed version of the database that enterprises can run on AWS. By year’s end, there will be support for Microsoft Corp.’s Azure and Google Cloud as well. Couchbase’s plan is to give customers the ability to create a multicloud database  environment spanning more than one provider and centrally manage the deployment via a single pane of glass.

The multicloud support is partially facilitated by a feature called XDCR. It’s a replication tool that enables enterprises to sync a database’s contents across multiple environments, in this case multiple public clouds. There’s a centralized management console that administrators can use to monitor the different components of their deployment.

On AWS, Couchbase Server uses the Amazon Elastic Kubernetes Service to spin up deployments for customers. Notably, the service deploys the database directly in the customer’s AWS environment rather than an environment managed by Couchbase. The company says this enables enterprises to reduce costs by using the discounted infrastructure rates they’ve negotiated with the cloud giant. 

“Without any intermediaries, customers are able to leverage reserve instances and reduce their TCO,” Couchbase product management head Scott Anderson wrote in a blog post.”For example, AWS advertises over 75% savings when choosing reserved instances instead of on-demand pricing. A secondary benefit of our in-VPC deployment is that data stored in Couchbase remains within the customer’s virtual private cloud environment, where they continue to maintain their own security best practices.”

Couchbase says the service has delivered some noteworthy returns for early adopters. Facet Digital LLC, a Washington-based application development firm, has reported it reduced database costs tenfold and increased performance by a hundredfold after switching to Couchbase Cloud.

The service competes with offerings such as Atlas, publicly traded MongoDB Inc.’s managed version of its NoSQL database.

Couchbase claimed to have more than 500 paying enterprise users when it announced its $105 million funding round last month. After seeing customers’ total contract value jump 70% in the past year, the company is now close to $100 million in committed annual recurring revenue.

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