SkySQL Release Notes 2020-12-16¶

MariaDB SkySQL is a DBaaS offering from MariaDB Corporation, providing cloud database service based on MariaDB Platform.

These release notes show changes made to MariaDB SkySQL as of 2020-12-16.

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New Features in this Release¶

MariaDB SkySQL is now available on Amazon AWS as a Technical Preview.
- Available topologies: Distributed Transactions, HA (Primary/Replica), Transactional Standalone
- Available regions: AWS us-east-2, AWS eu-central-1, AWS ap-southeast-1
- Available instance sizes: Sky-2x8, Sky-4x16, Sky-4x32, Sky-8x32, Sky-8x64, Sky-16x64, Sky-16x128, Sky-32x128, Sky-32x256, Sky-64x256, Sky-64x512
- Infrastructure: Amazon AWS EKS (Elastic Kubernetes Service)
- Storage: EBS Provisioned IOPS SSD (io1 type) with Amazon EBS encryption
- BAA for HIPAA and DPA for GDPR available
SkySQL Monitoring adds alerting features (for services on AWS or GCP).
- Condition-based alerting rules (metric vs threshold for time interval)
- Rule tagging to enable grouping of like alerts
- Notification channels to receive alerts, with email-based delivery
- Notifications sent to notification channels based on tags and severity

Amazon AWS added as a supported cloud platform in Launch and Service pages, with applicable AWS instance sizes and AWS regions.
MariaDB Platform for Distributed SQL topology formerly labeled Xpand is now Distributed Transactions.

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