Earlier this year, in March, we announced the general availability (GA) of Azure Database for MySQL, offering the community version of MySQL together with built-in high availability, a 99.99 percent availability SLA, elastic scaling for performance, and industry leading security and compliance in Azure. Since GA, the team has been at work delivering a variety of new features and additional functionality to enhance and extend the value of this service. I am pleased to share with you some details about the new additions to this service based on customer feedback.
Enhanced security with Virtual network service endpoints support in preview
The virtual network service endpoints feature for Azure Database for MySQL is now available in Public Preview for all regions in which the service is available.
Use virtual network service endpoints to isolate connectivity to a logical server from only a subnet or a set of subnets within a virtual network. The traffic to Azure Database for MySQL from your virtual network always stays within the Azure backbone network, preferring this direct route over any specific routes that take internet traffic through virtual appliances or on-premises. There's no additional billing for virtual network access through service endpoints. Learn more about virtual network service endpoints and how to configure them.
Support for large databases
Customers can now create 4 TB servers or update existing server storage to 4 TB in Azure Database for MySQL when they select the General Purpose or Memory Optimized service tiers. With increased storage customers, also leverage up to 6000 IOPS.
Data-in Replication generally available
Azure Database for MySQL now supports Data-in Replication. Use this feature to synchronize data from a MySQL server running on-premises, in virtual machines, or database services outside Azure into Azure Database for MySQL. Data-in Replication was designed for scenarios such as:
- Hybrid data synchronization: Sync data between on-premises servers and Azure Database for MySQL.
- Multi-cloud synchronization: Sync data between different cloud providers (including VMs and other database services) and Azure Database for MySQL.
Learn more about data-in replication and how to configure it.
Disaster recovery across regions made easier with geo redundant backups and recovery
Geo Restore is now generally available. Azure Database for MySQL servers are backed up periodically to enable Restore features. Using this feature, you may restore the server and all its databases to an earlier point-in-time, on a new server, making disaster recovery across regions even easier.
Migration support with Azure Database Migration Service (DMS) preview
Customers can now migrate MySQL databases to Azure Database for MySQL with minimal downtime by using the Azure Database Migration Service (DMS). Use the Azure CLI to provision an instance of DMS to perform migrations from MySQL on-premises or on virtual machines to Azure Database for MySQL.
Memory optimized pricing tier generally available
Customers can now create and switch to the new memory optimized pricing tier, which is designed for high-performance database workloads that require in-memory performance for faster transaction processing and higher concurrency.
With boundary scaling now available, customers can also scale across SKUs (General Purpose and Memory Optimized).
Regional availability increased to 28 countries/regions worldwide
General availability of Azure Database MySQL has been extended to the following countries/regions: Central US (Gen 4), North Central US (Gen 5), France Central (Gen 5), East Asia (Gen 5), Australia East (Gen5), Australia East 2 (Gen5), Australia Southeast (Gen 5), Central India (Gen 5), West India (Gen 5), South India (Gen 5), and Korea Central (Gen 5).
Also, in addition to previously available Gen 4 compute, Gen 5 compute is now generally available in the following regions: Brazil South, East US 2, Japan East, Japan West, South Central US, and Southeast Asia.
For a complete list of the 30 available regions, see the article Azure Database for MySQL pricing tiers.
Additional resources for Azure Database for MySQL
If you are currently this database service, you might find the following links useful:
- Azure Database for MySQL
- Sign up for a free account on Azure
I hope that you enjoy working with the latest features and functionality available in our Azure Database for MySQL. Be sure to share your impressions via User Voice for MySQL or @Ask Azure DB for MySQL.