Microsoft has been developing a set of tools to help manage Azure-hosted VMs for some time now under its Project Flash banner ...

Until now, to use MySQL or PostgreSQL on Azure, they would have had to spin up virtual machines to run and operate those database systems themselves.

The new Striim Database Migration Service, StreamShift, now supports enterprises moving from database sources such as Oracle, MySQL, PostgreSQL, MariaDB, and MongoDB to Microsoft Azure.

Both MySQL and PostgreSQL are now generally available on the Azure Database service, Microsoft announced recently. The two open source database management systems, which have been in preview on Azure ...