Overview

Exoscale Managed MySQL delivers a fully-managed, high-availability MySQL 8 (and 5.7 for legacy workloads) service. It removes the operational burden of provisioning, patching, scaling, and backing up databases, so you can focus on building applications rather than running infrastructure.

Terminology

Service

a running MySQL instance or cluster managed by Exoscale DBaaS

Plan

a resource / redundancy tier such as hobbyist-1, business-32, premium-9x-16

Fork

a point-in-time clone of an existing service, useful for upgrades, testing, or disaster-recovery workflows

Read Replica

an additional node created with the built-in read-replica integration to offload read traffic

Migration Wizard

Portal / CLI workflow that imports data from an external MySQL 5.7 – 8.0 server

Features

Managed Lifecycle

automated provisioning, daily backups, minor-version patching, and plan resizing

Scalability

vertical scaling by changing plans and horizontal scaling via zone-level read replicas

Integrated Backup & PITR

automatic backups with point-in-time recovery on Business and Premium plans

Wizard-driven migrations

assisted replication or dump/import from external MySQL sources

High SLA

99.95 % (Hobbyist & Startup) and 99.99 % (Business & Premium) availability guarantees

API-first

every feature exposed through exo dbaas; common workflows also available in the Portal