One customer, a provider of consumer debt reduction tools called Freedom Financial Network LLC, used Database Migration Service to migrate a collection of MySQL databases to Google Cloud SQL.

Google Cloud is launching its Database Migration Service (DMS), a serverless tool to migrate MySQL, PostgreSQL and SQL Server databases to Cloud SQL with a few clicks.

Cloud SQL, based on the open-source MySQL database, was announced on Google's App Engine Blog yesterday, and is being rolled out to selected developers in a limited trial—for free.

Recently, Google announced a new serverless Database Migrates Service (DMS) in preview. The service supports migrations of self-hosted MySQL databases, either on-premises or in the cloud, and ...

Striim and Google Cloud partner to offer a Database Migration Service to facilitate moving data into databases running on Google Cloud Platform.

Google Cloud has announced extended support for end-of-life (EOL) Cloud SQL MySQL and PostgreSQL versions, aiming to help users maintain database operations and plan upgrades more efficiently.

Joneja added that Google Cloud SQL is a familiar MySQL database environment with JDBC support for Java-based App Engine applications and DB-API support for Python-based App Engine applications.

MySQL is broadly used by cloud applications, and Google is trying to keep it fuss-free — no small feat for any piece of software, let alone a database notorious in its needs for tweaks to work well.

Amazon Aurora and Google Cloud SQL were both developed to offer customers high-performance, high-scalability MySQL databases as a service.

Google has created a relational database for its cloud-hosted App Engine application development and hosting platform, a much-requested addition, the company said on Thursday.