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April 2024

10 Apr

Generally available: Defender for Cloud supports Azure Database for MySQL - Flexible Server

NOW AVAILABLE

Target availability: Q2 2024

You can now protect Azure Database for MySQL - Flexible Server with Microsoft Defender for Cloud.

  • Azure Database for MySQL
  • Features
10 Apr

Public Preview: Long-term retention for Azure Database for MySQL – Flexible Server

IN PREVIEW

Target availability: Q2 2024

The feature will allow you to retain/manage backups for up to 10 years in the standard tier according to your compliance and auditing needs.

  • Azure Database for MySQL
  • Features
1 Apr

Public preview: Azure Backup supports long term retention for backup of Azure Database for MySQL– Flexible Server

IN PREVIEW

Target availability: Q1 2024

Now you can retain backups for up to 10 years by defining your own backup and retention policy for MySQL- Flexible server.

  • Azure Backup
  • Azure Database for MySQL flexible servers
  • Compliance
  • Features
  • Security

January 2024

17 Jan

General Availability: Azure Database for MySQL Import feature for Azure Database for MySQL Single to Flexible Server migrations

NOW AVAILABLE

Target availability: Q1 2024

Easily migrate your Azure Database for MySQL – Single Server workloads to Azure Database for MySQL – Flexible Server with Azure Database for MySQL Import.

  • Features

December 2023

6 Dec

Public Preview: Accelerated logs in Azure Database for MySQL - Flexible Server

IN PREVIEW

Target availability: Q4 2023

Gain a performance boost in the Business-Critical service tier of Azure Database for MySQL - Flexible Server with accelerated logs.

  • Azure Database for MySQL
  • Features

November 2023

22 Nov

General Availability - Azure Backup for AKS

NOW AVAILABLE

Azure Backup is announcing General Availability of Azure Backup for AKS allowing customers to protect their applications by providing ability to backup and restore AKS clusters.

  • Azure Backup
  • Azure Kubernetes Service (AKS)
  • Features

October 2023

11 Oct

General Availability: Azure Private Link for MySQL – Flexible Server

NOW AVAILABLE

Target availability: Q4 2023

Use Azure Private Link for private connectivity with MySQL – Flexible Server.

  • Azure Database for MySQL
  • Features
11 Oct

General Availability: Universal cross-region read replica on Azure Database for MySQL - Flexible Server

NOW AVAILABLE

Target availability: Q4 2023

Provision up to 10 read replicas in universal regions on Azure Database for MySQL - Flexible Server.

  • Azure Database for MySQL
  • Features

September 2023

29 Sep

Upgrade Azure Database for MySQL to MySQL v8.0 before support for v5.7 ends

NOW AVAILABLE

Target retirement date: September 30, 2025

Oracle retiring MySQL v5.7 on Oct 31, 2023. Azure extending support for Single Server until Sep 16, 2024, and Flexible Server until Sep 30, 2025. Upgrade to MySQL v8.0 advised.

  • Azure Database for MySQL
  • Retirements
  • Open Source
27 Sep

Public preview: Azure Database for MySQL flexible maintenance

IN PREVIEW

Target availability: Q3 2023

Tailor your maintenance windows to suit your schedule with Azure MySQL flexible maintenance.

  • Azure Database for MySQL
  • Features
22 Sep

Azure Database for MariaDB will be retired on 19 September 2025 – Migrate to Azure Database for MySQL Flexible Server

Target retirement date: September 19, 2025

Azure Database for MariaDB will be retired on 19 September 2025

  • Azure Database for MariaDB
  • Retirements

August 2023

30 Aug

Public Preview: Universal geo restore on Azure Database for MySQL- Flexible Server

IN PREVIEW

Target availability: Q3 2023

Restore Azure Database for MySQL – Flexible Server to any Azure supported region.

  • Azure Database for MySQL flexible servers
  • Features
2 Aug

General availability: Autoscale IOPS in Azure Database for MySQL – Flexible Server

NOW AVAILABLE

Target availability: Q3 2023

Effortlessly scale your storage IOPS to match workload demands with the autoscale IOPS feature in Azure Database for MySQL - Flexible Server.

  • Azure Database for MySQL flexible servers
  • Azure Database for MySQL
  • Features

July 2023

10 Jul

General availability: Azure Data Explorer adds support for PostgreSQL, MySQL, and CosmosDB SQL external tables

NOW AVAILABLE

Azure Data Explorer has released three new types of external tables: PostgrSQL, MySQL, and CosmosDB SQL. These new external tables allow users to query data from these sources directly within Azure Data Explorer using the Kusto Query Language (KQL).

  • Azure Data Explorer
  • Azure Cosmos DB
  • Azure Cosmos DB for PostgreSQL
  • Azure Database for MySQL
  • Azure Synapse Analytics
  • Features

June 2023

13 Jun

General Availability: Online migrations for Azure Database for MySQL instances

NOW AVAILABLE

Migrate your MySQL instances using Azure Database Migration Service with minimal downtime to Azure Database for MySQL – Flexible Server.

  • Azure Database for MySQL
  • Features
13 Jun

General availability: MySQL extension for Azure Data Studio

NOW AVAILABLE

Connect to, query, and develop for MySQL hosted on-premises or in the cloud with the MySQL extension for Azure Data Studio.

  • Azure Database for MySQL
  • Features
13 Jun

Microsoft Azure Load Testing - additional Azure components for server-side monitoring

NOW AVAILABLE

Azure Load Testing load testing now supports additional Azure components for server-side monitoring during a load test run.

  • Azure Load Testing
  • Services
  • Features
13 Jun

General availability: Read replica HA enabled Azure Database for MySQL - Flexible Server

NOW AVAILABLE

Provision up to 10 read replicas in geo-paired regions on Azure Database for MySQL— Flexible Server.

  • Azure Database for MySQL
  • Features

May 2023

23 May

Available: Azure Database for MySQL connector for Power Platform and Azure Logic Apps

NOW AVAILABLE

Azure Database for MySQL connector for Power Platform, Azure Logic Apps is now available and allows you to connect to any MySQL Flexible Server database to read and write data.

  • Azure Database for MySQL
  • Microsoft Build
  • Features
10 May

General Availability: Azure Database for MySQL - Flexible Server major version upgrade

NOW AVAILABLE

Upgrade your Azure Database for MySQL flexible server version from 5.7 to 8.0.

  • Features

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