Are you looking to get started with the world’s most popular open-source database and wondering how you should set up your MySQL hosting? So many default to Amazon RDS when MySQL performs exceptionally well on Azure Cloud. While Microsoft Azure does offer a managed solution, Azure Database, the solution has some major limitations you should know about before migrating your MySQL deployments. In this post, we outline the best way to host MySQL on Azure, including managed solutions, instance types, high availability replication, backup, and disk types to use to optimize your cloud database performance.
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MySQL DBaaS vs. Self-Managed MySQL
The first thing to consider when weighing between self-management and a MySQL Database-as-a-Service (DBaaS) solution is what internal resources you have available. If you’re reading this, you likely already know the magnitude of operational tasks associated with maintaining a production deployment, but for a quick recap, there’s provisioning, de-provisioning, master-slave configurations, backups, scaling, upgrades, log rotations, OS patching, and monitoring to name a few.