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Aiven does this and usually has the updates available within two weeks of release. We've gone 10 -> 11 -> 12 seamlessly (and fully online).

GCP also has this, but it usually takes them a year or two to have newer versions of PG (and by that time they are already outdated).

> GCP also has this

Are you saying that GCP has seamless upgrades? Any link to a doc? The only one I can find has you dump the database and restore it: https://cloud.google.com/sql/docs/postgres/upgrade-db

IBM Cloud lets you upgrade major versions through Read Replicas and also do dry runs, https://cloud.ibm.com/docs/databases-for-postgresql?topic=da...

AWS supports relatively seamless (but not automatic) major version upgrades, though because the database engine may have backward compatibility issues they recommend (but don't require) you do a lot of steps which make it less-than-seamless but safer.

They don't try to automatically handle breaking changes for you.

https://docs.aws.amazon.com/AmazonRDS/latest/AuroraUserGuide...