Migrating your MySQL workload to Azure Open-Source Databases

Microsoft Azure provides us with another two Platform as a Service (PaaS) database services that can be used to host your MySQL or PostgreSQL open- source databases in Azure. In that case, you will not worry about hardware of the servers, operating systems, or database software installations. With Microsoft Azure Open-source data platforms, you can start to create the database and let Azure manage all the software for you.

Azure Database for PostgreSQL is a relational database service provided by Microsoft Azure, based on the PostgreSQL open-source relational database. You can imagine it as a PostgreSQL open-source database hosted in Azure PaaS platform. In other words, you will take advantage of the Azure PaaS database features, such as bult-in high availability, automatic backup, automatic maintenance, best performance, elastic scaling, and easy deployment process, with no additional cost.

Azure Database for PostgreSQL supports community versions of PostgreSQL 9.5, 9,6, 10, and 11.

Azure Database for MySQL is a relational database service that is provided by Microsoft Azure based on the MySQL Community Edition database engine, versions 5.6 (retired), 5.7, and 8.0.
Hosting MySQL on Microsoft Azure provides it with high availability capabilities, automatic scheduled maintenance possibility, automatic backup, high performance, elastic scaling, cost optimization, high security and monitoring, with no additional cost

You can easily use the Azure Database Migration Service to perform migration for your on-premise MySQL or PostgreSQL to Microsoft Azure database platform.