With the economy slowing down and inflation raging in many parts of the world, your organization will love you if you find ways to reduce the costs of running their MySQL databases. This is especially true if you run MySQL in the cloud, as it often allows you to see the immediate effect of those savings, which is what this article will focus on. By Peter Zaitsev.
With so many companies announcing layoffs or hiring freezes, optimizing your costs may free enough budget to keep a few team members on or hire folks your team needs so much:
- Optimize your schema and queries
- Tune your MySQL configuration
- Implement caching
- Rightsize your resources
- Ditch DBaaS for Kubernetes
- Consider lower-cost alternatives
- Let experts manage your MySQL database
If the costs of your MySQL infrastructure in the cloud are starting to bite, do not despair. There are likely plenty of savings opportunities available. Nice one!
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