Fully managed, scalable MySQL Database
Azure Database for MySQL provides a fully managed database service for app development and deployment with built-in capabilities, such as high availability, at no extra cost.
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Important—The price in R$ is merely a reference; this is an international transaction and the final price is subject to exchange rates and the inclusion of IOF taxes. An eNF will not be issued.
Azure Database for MySQL Flexible Server offering is a fully managed MySQL service that allows you to focus on application development. It’s easy to set up, operate, and scale. Flexible Server offers simplicity, security, cost savings and scalable, efficient performance with:
- High Availability: MySQL Flex offers a service-level agreement (SLA) of up to 99.99 percent, ensuring zonal resiliency for your applications.
- Cost-Effectiveness: Achieve a 48 percent lower total cost of ownership compared to on-premises solutions. Pay only for storage when your database is stopped and pay only for IOPs your workload consumes.
- Advanced Security: Enjoy robust security features, including enterprise-grade security and compliance, such as data encryption, Azure Entra ID integration, Private Connectivity, Azure Defender, and Auditing capabilities.
- Scalability: options to easily manage workload demands with three different performance tiers.
- Free Tier Availability: Use Azure Database for MySQL Flexible server with limited resources for testing and development purposes for 12 months for first time users.
Burstable
Workloads with flexible compute requirements.
Burstable Compute
| Instance | vCores | Memory | Pay as you go |
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| B1ms | 1 | 2 GiB | $- |
| B1s | 1 | 1 GiB | $- |
| B2ms | 2 | 8 GiB | $- |
| B2s | 2 | 4 GiB | $- |
| B4ms | 4 | 16 GiB | $- |
| B8ms | 8 | 32 GiB | $- |
| B12ms | 12 | 48 GiB | $- |
| B16ms | 16 | 64 GiB | $- |
| B20ms | 20 | 80 GiB | $- |
General Purpose
Most business workloads requiring balanced compute and memory with scalable I/O throughput.
General Purpose
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| D Series | 2 | 8 GiB | $- |
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High performance database workloads requiring in-memory performance for faster transaction processing and higher concurrency.
Business Critical
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Storage
You are charged for the storage that you provision for your server. Storage can be provisioned up to 16 TB and includes 3 IOPS/GB of storage.
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| GB/month | $- |
Additional IOPS
You can scale your IOPS to optimise the performance of an IO-intensive operation. Additional IOPS beyond the provisioned amount will incur charges based on the usage, rounded up to the nearest minute. See more information on additional IOPS.
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Paid IO
Azure Database for MySQL will automatically scale your IOPS depending on the workload without the need for you to manually preprovision IOPS. This is a cost-effective IO model which charges only for what the workload consumes. Learn more
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| Paid IO Locally redundant storage (LRS) | $- per million IOPS |
| Paid IO Zone redundant storage (ZRS) | $- per million IOPS |
Back up Storage
Back up storage is the storage associated with automated backups of your server. Increasing your backup retention period increases the backup storage that is consumed by your server. There is no additional charge for backup storage for up to 100% of your total provisioned server storage. Additional consumption of backup storage will be charged in GB/month.
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| GB/month | $- | GRS requires twice the amount of storage capacity because it creates a replica. If you have configured the back up storage to be geo-redundant (GRS), the price will be 2x this price. Price per GB remains the same. |
Read Replica
Read replicas allow read-heavy workloads to scale out beyond the capacity of a single Azure Database for MySQL Flexible server. Each read replica is billed for provisioned compute in vCores and storage in GB/month.
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Frequently asked questions
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Flexible Server is billed on a predictable, hourly rate. You are billed for the compute and storage you provision and the back up storage you consume. On your bill, you will see a separate line item for compute, storage, and back up storage. Compute is billed per vCore-hour. Storage and back up storage are billed per GB-month.
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For each read replica you create, you are billed for the provisioned compute in vCores and provisioned storage in GB-month in the region where your replica is provisioned.
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Servers enabled with HA have a primary and secondary replica. Secondary replica can be in same zone or zone redundant. You are billed for the provisioned compute and storage for both the primary and secondary replica. For example, if you have a primary with 4 vCores of compute and 512 GB of provisioned storage, your secondary replica will also have 4 vCores and 512 GB of provisioned storage. Your zone redundant HA server will be billed for 8 vCores and 1,024 GB of storage. An extra 36 IOPs per node in addition to the configured IOPs on your servers will be added and reserved, so additional charges for the 72 IOPs per month would apply based on your Azure region for HA enabled servers. Depending on your back up storage volume, you may also be billed for back up storage.
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Back up storage is the storage associated with automated backups of your server, including data and log backups. Increasing your backup retention period increases the backup storage that is consumed by your server. There is no additional charge for backup storage for up to 100% of your total provisioned storage for your primary server. Additional consumption of backup storage will be charged in GB-month. For example, if your primary server has a storage size of 512 GBs, you will get 512 GBs of backup at no additional cost. However, if the backup is 612 GBs, you will pay for the incremental 100 GBs.
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You are billed for each full hour that your server exists regardless of whether the server was active for the full hour. If you have scaled up your database, you will be billed for the higher number of vCores used within the hour. If you have switched between two compute tiers, you will be billed for the higher priced compute tier.
For example:
- If you create a server and delete it after five minutes, you are charged for one full hour for the provisioned compute and storage.
- If you create a server with 8 vCores of General Purpose compute and then immediately scale up to 16 vCores of General Purpose compute, you are charged for 16 vCores of General Purpose compute for the first hour.
- If you create a server with General Purpose compute with 8 vCores and then immediately upgrade it to Memory Optimised compute with 8 vCores, you are charged for 8 vCores Memory Optimised compute for the first hour.
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While your server is stopped, you will only be billed for the storage you have provisioned and any back up storage you consume that exceed 100% of your primary provisioned storage volume. While your server is stopped, you will not be billed for compute.
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