PlanetScale will serve you well as a MySQL-compatible cloud database that can scale to hold essentially as much data as you need. As of now, it’s not a globally distributed database, despite its ...

Amazon’s Relational Database Service (RDS) creates a MySQL database server in the cloud. The notion of “database as a service” is already a reality, thanks to products like FathomDB.

Amazon Web Services has introduced a micro version of its cloud-based database service RDS running MySQL and priced from US$19 a month, the company said on Monday. Just like Amazon’s other cloud ...