MySQL Database-as-a-Service: Easy, Fast and Fully Managed
Get a performance-optimized database for your application in minutes. Cloud Databases gives you simple, on-demand provisioning and open APIs—so you can deploy MySQL, Percona Server, or MariaDB with minimal effort.
Cloud Databases is available in all of our global data centers, and it's backed by MySQL experts who tackle the management challenge for you. Add Cloud Databases to your solution and start enjoying the benefits of an easy-to-use database deployed on purpose-built hardware.
With 24x7x365 monitoring and database specialists available to you anytime, you spend less time managing infrastructure and more time focusing on your application.
Performance Optimized
From the network to the storage system and database configuration, we optimize every infrastructure component to provide peak database performance.
Simple to Use
Easily provision, scale and access your databases using our control panel, API or CLI. Deploy in minutes and free yourself from time-consuming and costly management tasks.
"Rackspace has been invaluable in helping our startup succeed. The stability and performance of Cloud Databases allows us to scale in a cost-effective manner and focus on optimizing, scaling, and enhancing our Appreciation Engine product."
Jeff Mitchell
CTO, Appreciation Engine
Features
Built for Reliability
Redundant storage, power and networking help protect you from hardware failures. A dedicated storage cluster with synchronous data replication keeps your data available across multiple storage clusters and helps to protect against data loss.
High Performance
Container-based virtualization delivers near bare-metal performance, and high-speed networking provides low-latency communication between your database and other Cloud Servers.
Scalable
Cloud Databases lets you painlessly add or remove replicas, move between instance sizes up to 64GB of RAM and scale storage up to 1TB (or even higher on request).
Reduced Complexity
Even complex features like replication, high availability, monitoring and backups are simplified and easy to enable via our Control Panel, API or CLI.
Additional Features
Single instances, replica sets and High Availability groups
Dedicated 24x7x365 support to help whenever you need it
Supports MySQL, Percona Server, and MariaDB
Easy access via Cloud Control Panel, CLI or API
Scale RAM and storage independently with minimal downtime
Scheduled or on-demand backups and restores
Container-based isolation for near bare-metal performance
Fast, durable, and consistent RAID 10 storage
SSL encryption for data security while in transit
Public IPs with ACLs on High Availability groups
Customizable MySQL settings with configuration groups
Our dedicated team of customer data engineers will help you create, install, patch, monitor and troubleshoot Cloud Databases.
Standard Instance Pricing
RAM
Logical Cores
CPU Weight
I/O Priority
Network
TPS
512MB
1
0.5
1
20Mbit
116*
$0.05
$36.50
1GB
1
1
2
100Mbit
449*
$0.06
$43.80
2GB
2
2
3
200Mbit
864*
$0.12
$87.60
4GB
4
4
4
300Mbit
1566*
$0.24
$175.20
8GB
6
8
5
400Mbit
2130*
$0.48
$350.40
16GB
8
16
6
500Mbit
2651*
$0.96
$700.80
32GB
10
32
7
1000Mbit
3372*
$1.92
$1,401.60
64GB
14
64
8
2000Mbit
3785*
$3.84
$2,803.20
RAM
Logical Cores
CPU Weight
I/O Priority
Network
TPS
512MB
1
0.5
1
20Mbit
116*
£0.030675
£22.39275
1GB
1
1
2
100Mbit
449*
£0.03681
£26.8713
2GB
2
2
3
200Mbit
864*
£0.07362
£53.7426
4GB
4
4
4
300Mbit
1566*
£0.14724
£107.4852
8GB
6
8
5
400Mbit
2130*
£0.29448
£214.9704
16GB
8
16
6
500Mbit
2651*
£0.58896
£429.9408
32GB
10
32
7
1000Mbit
3372*
£1.17792
£859.8816
64GB
14
64
8
2000Mbit
3785*
£2.35584
£1,719.7632
RAM
Logical Cores
CPU Weight
I/O Priority
Network
TPS
512MB
1
0.5
1
20Mbit
116*
A$0.0625
A$45.625
1GB
1
1
2
100Mbit
449*
A$0.075
A$54.75
2GB
2
2
3
200Mbit
864*
A$0.15
A$109.50
4GB
4
4
4
300Mbit
1566*
A$0.30
A$219.00
8GB
6
8
5
400Mbit
2130*
A$0.60
A$438.00
16GB
8
16
6
500Mbit
2651*
A$1.20
A$876.00
32GB
10
32
7
1000Mbit
3372*
A$2.40
A$1,752.00
64GB
14
64
8
2000Mbit
3785*
A$4.80
A$3,504.00
RAM
Logical Cores
CPU Weight
I/O Priority
Network
TPS
512MB
1
0.5
1
20Mbit
116*
€0.042375
€30.93375
1GB
1
1
2
100Mbit
449*
€0.05085
€37.1205
2GB
2
2
3
200Mbit
864*
€0.1017
€74.241
4GB
4
4
4
300Mbit
1566*
€0.2034
€148.482
8GB
6
8
5
400Mbit
2130*
€0.4068
€296.964
16GB
8
16
6
500Mbit
2651*
€0.8136
€593.928
32GB
10
32
7
1000Mbit
3372*
€1.6272
€1,187.856
64GB
14
64
8
2000Mbit
3785*
€3.2544
€2,375.712
Currency:
Storage Price: $0.75/GB/month£0.46/GB/monthA$0.94/GB/month€0.64/GB/monthCPU Weight: Higher is better, with the instance receiving more time on the CPU on the basis of its weight under high load.
Network: Allocated network throughput.
TPS (Transactions per second): Benchmark (June 2014) in transactions per second using 64 MySQL threads for all flavors, except 32 threads for 512MB.
*Your mileage may vary. A benchmark is only a guideline and not representative of the performance your application will see. Always benchmark your own application.
**Cloud Database's backups are stored in Cloud Files and therefore are subject to standard Cloud Files pricing per GB of storage used by the backups. Please see the Cloud Files pricing page for more details on Cloud Files pricing.
High Availability Instance Pricing
RAM
Logical Cores
CPU Weight
I/O Priority
Network
TPS
1GB
1
1
1
100Mbit
449*
$0.08
$58.40
2GB
2
2
2
200Mbit
864*
$0.14
$102.20
4GB
4
4
3
300Mbit
1566*
$0.26
$189.80
8GB
6
8
4
400Mbit
2130*
$0.51
$372.30
16GB
8
16
5
500Mbit
2651*
$0.99
$722.70
32GB
10
32
6
1000Mbit
3372*
$1.95
$1,423.50
64GB
14
64
7
2000Mbit
3785*
$3.85
$2,810.50
RAM
Logical Cores
CPU Weight
I/O Priority
Network
TPS
1GB
1
1
1
100Mbit
449*
£0.04908
£35.8284
2GB
2
2
2
200Mbit
864*
£0.08589
£62.6997
4GB
4
4
3
300Mbit
1566*
£0.15951
£116.4423
8GB
6
8
4
400Mbit
2130*
£0.312885
£228.40605
16GB
8
16
5
500Mbit
2651*
£0.607365
£443.37645
32GB
10
32
6
1000Mbit
3372*
£1.196325
£873.31725
64GB
14
64
7
2000Mbit
3785*
£2.361975
£1,724.24175
RAM
Logical Cores
CPU Weight
I/O Priority
Network
TPS
1GB
1
1
1
100Mbit
449*
A$0.10
A$73.00
2GB
2
2
2
200Mbit
864*
A$0.175
A$127.75
4GB
4
4
3
300Mbit
1566*
A$0.325
A$237.25
8GB
6
8
4
400Mbit
2130*
A$0.6375
A$465.375
16GB
8
16
5
500Mbit
2651*
A$1.2375
A$903.375
32GB
10
32
6
1000Mbit
3372*
A$2.4375
A$1,779.375
64GB
14
64
7
2000Mbit
3785*
A$4.8125
A$3,513.125
RAM
Logical Cores
CPU Weight
I/O Priority
Network
TPS
1GB
1
1
1
100Mbit
449*
€0.0678
€49.494
2GB
2
2
2
200Mbit
864*
€0.11865
€86.6145
4GB
4
4
3
300Mbit
1566*
€0.22035
€160.8555
8GB
6
8
4
400Mbit
2130*
€0.432225
€315.52425
16GB
8
16
5
500Mbit
2651*
€0.839025
€612.48825
32GB
10
32
6
1000Mbit
3372*
€1.652625
€1,206.41625
64GB
14
64
7
2000Mbit
3785*
€3.262875
€2,381.89875
Currency:
US data center rates are shown.
NOTE: Master and replicas are separate instances, each charged at the standard rate above.
Availability: US and UK data centers only.
Storage Price: $0.75/GB/month£0.46/GB/monthA$0.94/GB/month€0.64/GB/monthCPU Weight: Higher is better, with the instance receiving more time on the CPU on the basis of its weight under high load.
Network: Allocated network throughput.
TPS (Transactions per second): Benchmark (June 2014) in transactions per second using 64 MySQL threads for all flavors, except 32 threads for 512MB.
*Your mileage may vary. A benchmark is only a guideline and not representative of the performance your application will see. Always benchmark your own application.
**Cloud Database's backups are stored in Cloud Files and therefore are subject to standard Cloud Files pricing per GB of storage used by the backups. Please see the Cloud Files pricing page for more details on Cloud Files pricing.
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