back to article Suits you serverless! Google offers SQL database porting service tailor-made for its cloud

Google has launched a SQL database porting service it said will ease the lift and shift of SQL family databases into its managed relational database service Cloud SQL. Dubbed the Database Migration Service, or DMS, the product is designed to help users get their instances of open-source MySQL and PostgreSQL, and proprietary …

  1. Anonymous Coward
    Anonymous Coward

    No, thank you

    > Cost is… truly unknown until after the migration is done.

    Right.

    > users should ask about the cost implications

    Not to mention the privacy implications.

    If you *really* are in a situation where you find yourself constantly having to spin up new database instances for replication, etc., you would use a Docker image or similar, that you control and can run in whichever platform(s) you fancy.

    But I guess most users will need one database and perhaps one or more replication servers, so it's not that difficult to spec that into your project and configure in an optimal way for your intended use.

    1. jake Silver badge

      Re: No, thank you

      But it's SERVERLESS!!!!!

      And it's IN THE CLOUD!!!

      We must purchase it forthwith!!! Or sooner, if also has teh BLOCKCHAINS!!!!!

  2. Robert Grant

    Although the service may have its uses, it is not really a database migration as such, said Philip Howard, research director at Bloor Research. "Migration is the movement of persistent data that involves some sort of restructuring of that data while the usage of that data remains constant," he said.

    No. Why mention this silliness? (And why mention serverless? It's PAAS.)

    1. jake Silver badge

      PAAS? How can you even THINK of colo(u)ring eggs when we haven't seen the backside of Solstice yet‽‽‽

  3. Anonymous Coward
    Anonymous Coward

    I can imagine the tumbleweed rolling through their deserted database servers. Almost no one uses Google cloud.

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