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Cloud-based managed MySQL data services have become popular choices for businesses. While these services offer advantages, they also come with a host of drawbacks that can impact performance, control, and costs. This post explores these key drawbacks in detail and compares those to Tungsten Clustering running in the cloud, also multi-cloud, hybrid-cloud and on-premises.

It may seem arduous, but there are ways to build a database stack where you have full control of your data and data operations. For mission-critical applications that must perform continuously 24/7/365, it might make a lot of sense to consider, as there are many benefits to taking control of your mission-critical data and operations. Below are a couple important points to consider when doing an analysis of what’s best for your application and end users.

Migrating to the cloud with zero downtime is a problem that companies running mission-critical applications have to solve, but not on their own. If you’re running a MySQL or MariaDB database it can be easy. Many of our customers have done this successfully, simplifying their overall Cloud migration process by making the database layer easy to move. It’s one less thing to worry about.

Following the announcement late last year that we’d made our flagship product Tungsten Cluster available on the Amazon Marketplace in an easy-to-access and deploy AMI format, we published some useful resources in the past few months to help users getting started with Tungsten Clustering in the AWS cloud.

Give the latest Tungsten Replicator (AMI) a test drive with its 14-day free trial on the AWS marketplace!

We’ve just recently brought our Tungsten Cluster (AMI) up to the current release level of our flagship product, Tungsten Cluster, and would like to invite users to give it a test drive!

We’ve just recently brought our Continuent Tungsten AMIs up to the current release level of our flagship products, Tungsten Cluster and Tungsten Replicator, and would like to invite users to give them a test drive!

Continuent is pleased to announce the availability of our new Tungsten Cluster (AMI) - the complete continuous operations solution for MySQL database clusters - on the AWS Marketplace.

Watch our latest on-demand webinar: Deploying Hybrid & Multi-Cloud Applications With Ultimate MySQL Availability. Learn about the pros and cons of single cloud region vs multi-region cloud deployments … and more.

This blog explores the best practices for deploying Tungsten Clustering for MySQL across Availability Zones, outlining the approaches for best high availability, fast response times, and load balancing recommendations.

How to build a multi-region, multi-master MySQL cloud database back- end capable of serving a global, high-volume cloud contact center: this global SaaS provider is a Cloud Contact Center solution provider, who needs to deliver up-to-date data to clients as quickly as possible.

This case study of a global SaaS provider looks at how our customer migrated from Amazon RDS to a truly global, geo-distributed multi-master Tungsten Clustering solution.