Azure Database for MySQL feature releases and blog posts over the past year

[Jim Toland]

We’ve been hard at work on Azure Database for MySQL over the past several months, with several new feature/functionality releases. We have also published numerous blog posts related to the service.

Features and functionality

Regarding our releases over the past several months, we’ve announced several new capabilities that provide critical steps toward enabling customers to more easily leverage the service, including:

• General Availability
  • Server storage to 4 TB
  • VNET Service Endpoint
  • Moving servers across subs.
  • 32 vCore MO, 64 vCore GP
  • Same region Read Replica
  • CLI support for Azure DB for MySQL read replicas
  • Additional customizable MySQL engine parameters
  • Storage auto-grow option
  • Availability in South Africa regions
• Public Preview
  • Advanced Threat Protection
  • Read Replica across regions
  • Database engine auditing
  • 16TB/20K IOPS
  • Intelligent Performance

Blog posts

Below is a consolidated list of the blog posts we published over the last year, in reverse chronological order:

• Jul 2019
  • How HSBC built its PayMe for Business app on Microsoft Azure
• Apr 2019
  • Deploying Grafana for production deployments on Azure
• Mar 2019
  • Happy birthday to managed Open Source RDBMS services in Azure!
  • Move to intelligent banking by embracing open APIs (Microsoft Industry Blogs)
  • Scaling out read workloads in Azure Database for MySQL
• Dec 2018
  • Modernize your Java Spring Boot application with Azure Database for MySQL
• Nov 2018
  • Best practices for alerting on metrics with Azure Database for MySQL monitoring
  • Azure SQL Database and Azure Database for MySQL at PASS SUMMIT!
  • Automate your Azure Database for MySQL deployments using ARM templates
• Oct 2018
  • Announcing Azure database services for MySQL and PostgreSQL for Azure Government customers
• Sep 2018
  • Advanced Threat Protection for Azure Database for MySQL in preview
  • Latest updates to Open Source Database Services for Azure – Ignite 2018
  • Join the Azure Open Source Database Engineering Team at Microsoft Ignite
• Aug 2018
  • Announcing VNet service endpoints general availability for MySQL and PostgreSQL
• Jul 2018
  • Latest updates to Azure Database for MySQL

Note: For all blog posts related to Azure Database for MySQL, see the following links:

• Azure Blog posts
• Tech Community posts

With several new features and additional service functionality in the pipeline, be sure to stay tuned for the latest updates!

The Azure Open Source Database Team