Service Description

Managed Database for MySQL

Version 2025.06.03

Our Managed Database for MySQL offers a hassle-free, secure, and reliable database solution. Each instance comes with a pre-created database, supporting one database per instance, provisioned automatically at the time of creation. Ideal for developers and teams who want to focus on building applications without worrying about setup, maintenance, or patching. Read more

Locations

The product is present in the following locations:

  • dc-fbg1 (our DC in Falkenberg, Sweden)
  • dc-sto1 (our DC in Stockholm, Sweden)
  • dc-oul1 (our DC in Oulu, Finland)

Technical Specification

Customer self-service Yes. Managed in Glesys Cloud and available via API
Engine version(s) MySQL version 8.0
Disk IOPS 12,000
Supported storage engine(s) InnoDB
Primary key constraint Yes
Database replication feature No
Automated failover feature No
Change engine version support No
Root user privileges No
User-specific database permissions No
Encryption at Rest No
Encryption in Transit Yes (uses the TLS protocol)
Availability and access By default, all traffic is blocked. As a user, you add IP addresses that are allowed to connect to the database.
Disk full failure prevention Database instances automatically switch to read-only mode when the disk is almost full, with 3 GiB remaining. Preventing writes stops the disk from continuing to fill and keeps the instances available for reads. During the read-only mode, you can take measures to free more disk space.
Processing of personal data Storage, transfer

Automated backup

Backup plan One daily backup with 14-days retention
Custom schemes No
Remote backups Yes
Point-in-time recovery (PITR) No


Predefined plans

Glesys offers a wide spectrum of plans to serve use cases that range in size from personal blogs to large datasets and high-transaction applications.

Please note that there is currently no feature in the UI to switch plans. However, users can utilize a SQL dump provided by us and restore it to a new instance with the desired resources.

vCPUs Memory Storage Max. Connections
1 4 GiB RAM 25 GiB 400
1 4 GiB RAM 50 GiB 400
2 8 GiB RAM 50 GiB 800
2 8 GiB RAM 100 GiB 800
4 16 GiB RAM 50 GiB 1,600
4 16 GiB RAM 100 GiB 1,600
4 32 GiB RAM 150 GiB 3,200
4 32 GiB RAM 300 GiB 3,200
8 64 GiB RAM 150 GiB 6,400
8 64 GiB RAM 300 GiB 6,400
8 128 GiB RAM 150 GiB 12,800
8 128 GiB RAM 300 GiB 12,800

Monitoring

Monitoring is available via a Prometheus-compatible endpoint; however, customers must set up their own solution to store historical metrics. Access to systemd logs and the slow query log is not available.

Maintenance

You will be assigned a regular and recurring day and time each week for maintenance. Occasionally, Glesys performs maintenance tasks on the managed MySQL database. These tasks typically include updating the underlying infrastructure of the database, such as patching the operating system, updating necessary libraries, or upgrading MySQL itself. Glesys manages these maintenance tasks automatically. During maintenance, the database may experience a brief period of downtime, which can last up to 10 minutes.

Responsibilities

Infrastructure platform Glesys
Database administration Customer
SQL troubleshooting Customer
MySQL performance troubleshooting Customer
Automated backups Glesys
Backup verification Customer
Backup recovery* Customer
* Glesys provides the mysqldump.