For years, Australian developers have faced an uncomfortable trade-off. The best Backend-as-a-Service platforms — Supabase, Firebase, and the major hyperscalers — deliver an outstanding developer experience, but they are operated by US-incorporated companies. Even when you select an Australian region, your data remains legally reachable under the US CLOUD Act. WattleDB exists to close that gap.
What WattleDB is
WattleDB is a sovereign Australian Backend-as-a-Service. It gives you the core of a modern application today, hosted entirely on Australian-owned infrastructure:
- Managed PostgreSQL in Sydney and Melbourne data centres
- Instant REST APIs auto-generated from your schema (PostgREST)
- JWT authentication and Row-Level Security, issued and enforced onshore
- Automated backups with point-in-time recovery on every tier
- S3-compatible object storage under Australian jurisdiction
A hosted authentication service and local-only transactional email are on the roadmap — the database, APIs, security and storage are live now.
Why sovereignty matters now
The regulatory landscape has shifted. Penalties under the Privacy Act now reach up to $50 million for serious or repeated interference with privacy, and the Australian Government's Hosting Certification Framework requires government data to sit with certified, sovereign-controlled hosting providers. For healthcare, legal, financial, and government workloads, “an Australian region” is no longer the same thing as “Australian sovereignty.”
Same developer experience as Supabase — but with genuine Australian data sovereignty.
Built to be easy to adopt
WattleDB is built on an open-source core — PostgreSQL and PostgREST — the same foundation Supabase is built on. Because it's standard Postgres with a PostgREST API, moving an existing project is usually a matter of migrating your schema and data with pg_dump/pg_restore and repointing your connection string, rather than rewriting your application.
Get started
WattleDB is live. If data sovereignty is on your roadmap — or your next tender requires it — you can sign up and start building at console.wattledb.com.au.