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16 resources — pricing Pay-as-You-Go
Aiven for MySQL
Fully managed MySQL service deployable across AWS, Google Cloud, Azure, and other clouds — with automated backups, monitoring, and connection pooling.

Alibaba Cloud ApsaraDB RDS for MySQL
Alibaba Cloud's managed MySQL service, provisioned, patched, and backed up by Alibaba Cloud, with read-only replicas and a dedicated-cluster edition for higher-throughput workloads.

Amazon Aurora (MySQL-Compatible Edition)
AWS's MySQL-compatible relational database engine, built on a distributed, log-structured storage layer separate from compute, with Multi-AZ failover, Aurora Serverless capacity scaling, and a Global Database option for cross-region replicas.
Amazon RDS for MySQL
Managed MySQL on AWS — automated backups, patching, and Multi-AZ high availability.

AWS Database Migration Service
AWS's managed migration and ongoing-replication service, used to move data into or out of MySQL and MariaDB with minimal downtime, billed hourly with no upfront commitment.
Azure Database for MySQL
Fully managed MySQL service on Microsoft Azure with built-in high availability.

Clever Cloud MySQL
A fully managed MySQL add-on from French PaaS provider Clever Cloud, running on Percona Server, hosted in EU datacenters with daily backups and a free tier for testing.

DigitalOcean Managed MySQL
Fully managed MySQL clusters on DigitalOcean — daily backups with point-in-time recovery, encryption in transit and at rest, and optional standby nodes for automatic failover, billed with flat monthly pricing.
Google Cloud SQL for MySQL
Fully managed MySQL service on Google Cloud with automated storage increases and backups.

MariaDB Cloud
MariaDB's own database-as-a-service — serverless and provisioned MariaDB deployments across AWS, Google Cloud, and Azure, the product line formerly marketed as SkySQL.

MySQL HeatWave
Oracle's fully managed MySQL cloud database with a built-in in-memory query accelerator for real-time analytics, generative AI, and ML — deployable on OCI, AWS, and Azure.

OVHcloud Databases for MySQL
A fully managed MySQL DBaaS on OVHcloud's Public Cloud — OVHcloud provisions, patches, and backs up the cluster, with plans ranging from a single node up to a 3-node high-availability setup.

Tencent Cloud TDSQL-C for MySQL
Tencent Cloud's self-developed cloud-native relational database for MySQL, with compute and storage separated and a shared distributed storage layer across read-write and read-only nodes.

TiDB Cloud
PingCAP's fully managed database-as-a-service for TiDB, a distributed, MySQL-compatible SQL database, available on AWS, Google Cloud, and Azure.

