Executive Summary.

Many organizations have enjoyed great success building and operating their websites and business-critical database-driven web applications on the popular open-source MySQL database.

While MySQL is a costeffective, flexible, and scalable platform that is preferred by many developers, the burden of deploying, managing, maintaining, securing, protecting, and tuning the database and associated components often falls upon the developers themselves.

For many organizations, managing a large number of on-premises MySQL instances has become complex and costly from an operational perspective.

Developers’ time is better spent developing applications and innovating new solutions rather than managing databases, resulting in improved developer productivity and faster application delivery, as well as improved product quality and capabilities.

ESG validated that, by migrating on-premises MySQL instances to the fully managed Azure Database for MySQL, organizations have reported significant operational savings, have reduced risk, and have improved the speed of application development and delivery.

ESG’s modeled scenario predicts that a medium-sized development organization with 26 developers and 200 MySQL instances could realize savings of up to 48% over a three-year period including an 86% lower cost of administration.

They could also realize improved revenue of $15.5M with earlier release of products, improved application uptime, and improved product quality by leveraging Azure Database for MySQL, resulting in a 92% return on investment (ROI).