Should You Move Your MySQL Database to the Cloud?

“The service that interests us database personnel is called
Database as a Service, or DBaaS for short. In a DBaaS, the database
tier in the backend is being overseen by a management layer that’s
responsible for monitoring and configuring the database to achieve
optimized scaling, high availability, multi-tenancy and effective
resource allocation in the cloud. In a DBaaS solution, the
developer is spared much of the hassles of the tedious ongoing DB
management tasks and operations, as those are automatically handled
by the service itself.

“Cloud applications commonly connect to a database that is also
being run on the cloud. It can take the form of a manually
configured database, like MySQL on an Amazon EC2 instance,
preconfigured MySQL like Amazon RDS, or a native cloud
Database-as-a-Service like Xeround’s MySQL Cloud database. What
we’ve seen is that native cloud databases are better equipped to
optimally use cloud resources and to guarantee availability and
stability, compared to ‘patched’ software being adopted for cloud
use.”

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