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 Australia's first sovereign Backend-as-a-Service. It gives you everything you need to ship a modern application, hosted entirely on Australian-owned infrastructure:
- Managed PostgreSQL in Sydney and Melbourne data centres
- Instant REST APIs auto-generated from your schema (PostgREST)
- Sovereign authentication with JWT issuance and Row-Level Security
- Automated backups with point-in-time recovery
- S3-compatible object storage under Australian jurisdiction
- Local-only transactional email routed through Australian SMTP
Why sovereignty matters now
The regulatory landscape has shifted. The Privacy Act 2024 amendments introduced penalties of up to $50 million per contravention, and the Whole-of-Government Cloud Computing Policy mandates sovereignty-compliant infrastructure for new federal digital initiatives. 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 — and ships with Supabase-compatible client libraries. That means migrating an existing project is usually a matter of changing a few environment variables 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.