We’re excited to announce that Google Cloud’s Database Migration Service (DMS) is generally available, supporting MySQL and PostgreSQL migrations from on-premises and other clouds to Cloud SQL. Later this year we will introduce support for Microsoft SQL Server. You can get started with DMS today at no additional charge.
Enterprises are modernizing their business infrastructure with managed cloud services. They want to leverage the reliability, security, and cost-effectiveness of fully managed cloud databases like Cloud SQL. In November, we launched the new, serverless DMS as part of our vision for meeting these modern needs in an easy, fast, predictable, and reliable way.
We’ve seen accelerated adoption of DMS, including customers such as Accenture, Comoto, DoiT, Freedom Financial Network, Ryde and Samsung, who are migrating their MySQL and PostgreSQL production workloads to Cloud SQL. DMS provides these customers the power to migrate quickly and with minimal disruption to their services.
Freedom Financial Network quickly migrated their large MySQL databases to Cloud SQL. Christopher Testroet, their principal engineer, said “Initially, when planning the migration, we figured that a planned downtime of 2–3 hours might have been workable—not ideal, but workable. But once we were up to speed with our competence on DMS, the actual downtime for each application from the database side was a maximum of ten minutes. This was a great improvement for every team in our organization.”
We worked closely during the DMS preview period with DoiT, a company that specializes in helping their customers with cloud migrations. “We see many customers that either want to migrate their business from on-premises to the cloud or are already in the cloud and want to migrate to a different provider,” says Mike Royle, Staff Cloud Architect at DoiT International. “One of the key pain points that prevents customers from completing these migrations is downtime. PostgreSQL customers typically have very large databases, meaning they are facing hours of downtime, which for most customers is just not realistic. With DMS, we can support our customers in migrating their databases with close to zero downtime."
Migrating your databases to Cloud SQL is a critical step in the journey to the cloud, and DMS provides a simple, serverless, and reliable path forward. “We are using Compute Engine for our servers, Google Vision for text recognition, Google Maps for validating addresses and calculating routes for our transfer services,” says Nicolas Candela Alvarez, IT Director at The Excellence Collection. “With DMS we moved our database to Cloud SQL and transitioned to a fully managed database that keeps up with our rapid business growth.”
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