# Supabase Beta January 2021

[Supabase](https://yomu.fyi/company/supabase) · Paul Copplestone · Feb 2, 2021

**Type:** Announcement

## Summary

Supabase released a collection of platform updates during January 2021 covering database tools, authentication integrations, regional availability, and infrastructure performance. Client libraries added support for PostgREST exact, planned, and estimated count queries to eliminate counting friction commonly experienced in platforms like Firebase. Authentication capabilities expanded to include Facebook and Azure login providers, an in-dashboard GoTrue audit trail, a helper function for user emails, and a prebuilt React Auth Widget. The platform also enabled new database hosting regions in London and Sydney while transitioning storage to GP3 for improved throughput. Furthermore, migrating API subdomains to Route53 alongside custom Let's Encrypt certificates yielded read performance benchmark gains of up to twelve percent.

## Context

Developers working with alternative platforms like Firebase faced difficulties with count operations, while Supabase users required broader authentication integrations, additional hosting locations, and lower latency.

## Approach / What changed

Supabase added PostgREST count support to client libraries, integrated Azure and Facebook authentication via GoTrue, added database hosting in London and Sydney, upgraded database storage to GP3, and transitioned subdomains to Route53 with custom Let's Encrypt certificates.

## Takeaways

- Supabase client libraries support PostgREST exact, planned, and estimated count operations on PostgreSQL.
- Migrating subdomains to Route53 with custom Let's Encrypt certificates yielded read benchmark improvements of up to 12%.
- Database instances were upgraded to GP3 storage to provide faster and more consistent throughput.

**Tags:** [Authentication](https://yomu.fyi/topic/authentication), [AWS](https://yomu.fyi/topic/aws), [Open Source](https://yomu.fyi/topic/open-source), [Performance](https://yomu.fyi/topic/performance), [Postgres](https://yomu.fyi/topic/postgres)

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