September 2025 Recap: Azure Database for MySQL
Join us live on our YouTube channel on October 15, 2025 for an exclusive webinar where we’ll dive deeper into the latest Azure Database for MySQL updates and answer your questions! Watch it live here. Support for In-Place Major Version Upgrade from 8.0 to 8.4 We previously announced that Azure Database for MySQL version 8.4 is now generally available. We’re now happy to share that in-place major version upgrade is supported for MySQL servers from 8.0 to 8.4. If you’re currently on MySQL 5.7, you’ll first need to perform an in-place upgrade from 5.7 to 8.0, and then upgrade from 8.0 to 8.4. Learn more. Near-Zero-Downtime Maintenance - General Availability You can now take advantage of near-zero-downtime maintenance for Azure Database for MySQL with high availability (HA) enabled. This capability is now generally available and is supported by our new HA architecture based on a dedicated Azure Standard Load Balancer design. Thanks to the dedicated Standard Load Balancer design, maintenance is now faster and no longer impacted by client-side DNS caching, which previously caused brief connection drops in some scenarios. This enhancement ensures that your mission-critical workloads remain continuously available, even during infrastructure updates, helping you meet strict uptime requirements and maintain operational continuity. Learn more. We would love your feedback We look forward to your feedback as you explore these enhancements and continue building with Azure Database for MySQL. If you have any suggestions or queries about our service, please let us know by emailing us at AskAzureDBforMySQL@service.microsoft.com. To learn more about what's new with Flexible Server, see What's new in Azure Database for MySQL - Flexible Server. Stay tuned for more updates and announcements by following us on social media: YouTube | LinkedIn | X. Thanks for being part of our community!General Availability: Online migration for Azure Database for MySQL using Azure DMS
We're pleased to announce general availability of online migration for Azure Database for MySQL using Azure Database Migration Service (DMS). With an online migration, businesses can now migrate an instance of Azure Database for MySQL - Single Server or their on-premises MySQL instance to Azure Database for MySQL - Flexible Server with minimal downtime for critical applications, limiting the impact to service level availability.Stream data in real time from Azure Database for MySQL - Flexible Server to Power BI
Debezium, Kafka Connect, Azure Event Hubs, Azure Data Lake Storage, Azure Stream Analytics, Synapse SQL Serverless, and Power BI can work together to create a comprehensive data pipeline that captures data changes from relational databases, stores them in Azure Data Lake Storage, performs real-time analytics on the data stream using Azure Stream Analytics, and provides insights through Power BI.Azure Database for MySQL - Flexible Server connector for Power Automate and Logic Apps (PREVIEW)
Build Microsoft Power Automate and Azure Logic Apps with the Azure Database for MySQL - Flexible Server connector (PREVIEW). Users can leverage this functionality to connect to the database to build new apps or workflows with a set of prebuilt actions and triggers. As a result, you’ll be able to automate and streamline internal processes for higher efficiency.New troubleshooting video series for Azure Database for MySQL
We’re pleased to announce our latest video series, focused on troubleshooting potential issues with Azure Database for MySQL. With a new episode releasing every couple of weeks, the Azure Database for MySQL - Troubleshooting Series provides tips and tricks that you can use to anticipate and address potential issues in specific problem areas, such as performance, connectivity, replication latency, database corruption, and more!Ignite 2022: Announcing new features in Azure Database for MySQL – Flexible Server
Today, we're pleased to announce a set of new and exciting features in Azure Database for MySQL - Flexible Server that further improve the service's availability, performance, security, management, and developer experiences!Announcing Autoscale IOPS (Public Preview) for Azure Database for MySQL - Flexible Server
Today, we are introducing Autoscale IOPS, making it easier and more cost effective for customers to run their mission-critical workloads on Azure Database for MySQL – Flexible Server. The server scales IOPs up or down automatically depending on your workload needs! You pay only for the IO you use and no longer need to provision and pay for resources which aren’t fully used.Announcing MySQL extension for Azure Data Studio (Public Preview)
We're excited to announce a new MySQL extension for Azure Data Studio! You can use this extension to connect to, query and develop for MySQL hosted on-premises or on the cloud (on VMs, on managed MySQL in other clouds or on Azure Database for MySQL – Flexible Server), using the capabilities of Azure Data Studio.
