Yugabyte, a provider of enterprise-grade distributed SQL databases, has announced that YugabyteDB Managed on Microsoft Azure is now available to the general public. With this release, businesses may use all three of the main public cloud providers to install YugabyteDB as a fully managed database-as-a-service.
Over 66 areas throughout the globe, including 15 Azure regions, are now providing the service. Enterprises may install databases where they are needed and manage them on an ongoing basis by using YugabyteDB’s wide global footprint on the top IaaS providers, AWS, Google Cloud Platform, and Azure.
While advancing its capabilities to a distributed cloud native architecture with native resilience, flexible geo-distribution, and seamless scalability for worldwide applications, YugabyteDB claims to maintain the strength and familiarity of PostgreSQL. Utilizing the database as a fully managed database-as-a-service would enable businesses to concentrate on developing applications while utilizing Yugabyte for effective database management.
“We are developing YugabyteDB to become the go-to cloud-native database for contemporary mission-critical business applications,” said Yugabyte co-founder and CTO Karthik Ranganathan. “The launch of YugabyteDB Managed on Azure puts us closer to the ambition of allowing enterprises to operate applications in any cloud at any size with zero downtime. Businesses are choosing Microsoft Azure as their primary cloud service or as a component of a multi-cloud strategy. By providing Azure as a public cloud alternative for YugabyteDB Managed, we are meeting the demands of our clients for database modernisation.”
Built on PostgreSQL
As a distributed database, YugabyteDB would guarantee continuous availability and reliability of applications while reducing the chance of downtime. By dynamically scaling database clusters, the production-ready solution takes use of Azure’s infrastructure to easily scale business-critical applications and meet the demands of expanding workloads. Enterprises may “simply” migrate applications across various cloud environments using YugabyteDB by selecting from a variety of clouds, including Azure. Since YugabyteDB Managed on Azure is built on PostgreSQL, switching over would be quite simple while it doesn’t need major application changes.
Other distributed SQL Azure services would not provide the same features and advantages that YugabyteDB Managed offers, such as:
- Easy Scale – With Azure, scale YugabyteDB Managed clusters either horizontally or vertically and respond fast to changing application demand.
- Strong Service Level Agreement – On Microsoft Azure, dedicated single-region YugabyteDB clusters are subject to a 99.99% Service Level Agreement (SLA).
- Global Availability – YugabyteDB Managed has increased its availability to over 66 cloud regions globally by extending its global reach to more than 15 Azure regions.
- Improved Security – YugabyteDB Managed and Azure Private Link are “seamlessly” integrated. To provide higher data privacy and compliance, users can create a secured private network connection between Azure Virtual Networks and YugabyteDB Managed clusters.
- Increase developer productivity – YugabyteDB Managed clusters are easy to deploy on Azure, according to Yugabyte. Developers may use the “user-friendly” online interface of YugabyteDB Managed or automate using Terraform or the Command Line Interface (YBM CLI). Developers may also “simply” connect to databases hosted by Azure using their preferred PostgreSQL client tool or the Cloud Shell in their web browser.
- Reliable Data Protection – On YugabyteDB Managed clusters in Azure, users may schedule backups. Automated data backups would increase data reliability and make failure recovery easier.
- Highly Resilient Clusters – YugabyteDB Managed on Azure would make it simple to deploy single region, multi-zone clusters that provide high availability, and fault tolerance within the same region.
