MySQL in the Cloud - Endless Possibilities

We will start by discussing some of the capabilities that cloud computing brings to the table including

• The ability to independently pick your starting CPU, memory and storage capacities.
• Scale any of those same dimensions on the fly with little or no downtime.
• Create or delete a database instance in minutes and only pay for what you use.
• Having reliable incremental backups that don’t rely on tape drives.

We will then describe how to combine these capabilities in exciting new ways including

• Having your database instance scale up and down on a daily basis with your workload.
• Enable sharding including horizontal partitioning, resharding and setting up MySQL as a hierarchical storage management system.
• Revolutionize testing by giving every developer their own test database instance for the price of your old single test database instance or test hundreds of combinations in a single day.