MariaDB Cloud
The Most Effective Way to Run MariaDB
Fully managed MariaDB on AWS, Microsoft Azure or Google Cloud, with built-in AI and pay-for-use pricing. Set up in seconds.
Why MariaDB Cloud
Everything you need to run mission-critical applications in the cloud
Always on
Active-active clustering, smart routing and instant failover keep you online through failures and failovers.
AI-ready
Build AI applications on your live data with a built-in MCP server, AI retrieval and native vector search.
Your cloud, your way
Run it in our cloud environment or yours. In yours, you keep full data control and put your cloud discounts to work.
Uptime SLA
99.995%
Attestations and certifications
Runs on
Elastic scaling
Scales with your traffic
Resilience and scale
Always on. Always available.
One platform across every environment, with no lock-in and no compromise on capabilities.
Multicloud disaster recovery
Survive regional outages by replicating across clouds, regions or your own environment.
Self-healing infrastructure
Failed nodes and processes are detected and replaced automatically. Your data stays safe.
Native intelligent proxy
Smart query routing, transparent failover and consistent reads with no application changes.
Flexible deployments
Serverless or provisioned,
your call.
Go serverless with pay-for-use billing for spiky workloads like AI agents, dev/test and online games, or provision dedicated capacity for production that runs all day.
AI and agents
Give your agents all the access they need, and cut the noise
AI agents, vector search and retrieval built into the database, on your live data, without bolting on another system.
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Built-in AI agents
MariaDB Cloud simplifies AI development by integrating high-performance vector search, custom agents and developer-first tooling directly into your database. Built-in copilot agents help developers get answers about MariaDB and cloud operations, and give DBAs troubleshooting guidance and proactive performance tuning.
DBA agent
Troubleshooting guidance and proactive performance tuning for your DBAs.
Developer agent
Plain text answers to developer questions about MariaDB and cloud operations.
02
Native vector search
Power RAG with semantic, full-text and hybrid searches. Store and query embeddings with HNSW indexing alongside relational data using standard SQL.
Up to 4x
higher vector search throughput than pgvector at 94% recall
03
AI Retrieval and MCP Server
Ground your AI applications in your own documents and databases through a managed retrieval layer, so you ship accurate agentic apps faster, without needing to build your own retrieval stack.
Use the Model Context Protocol (MCP) Server to provide AI agents with a standardized, secure interface to your data.
Fully managed
We run the database so you can build
MariaDB handles patching, upgrades, scaling and tuning, so your team can focus on the applications your business depends on.
Patching and upgrades
MariaDB applies security updates, patches and version upgrades, so your team doesn’t have to.
Serverless
autoscaling
Serverless compute scales up and down with demand, with no capacity planning or manual tuning.
Backups and recovery
Incremental, snapshot and binlog backups keep data loss close to zero if something goes wrong.
Performance tuning
A built-in DBA agent gives troubleshooting guidance and proactive performance tuning, so issues surface sooner.
Full platform
The complete MariaDB Enterprise Platform, run for you
Every enterprise capability in the cloud, from high availability to built-in AI and security, managed by the team that builds it.
Start free. Scale when you’re ready. Only pay for what you use.
Fully managed on AWS, Microsoft Azure and Google Cloud, with vector search, built-in AI agents and automated backups from day one.
Frequently asked questions
MariaDB Cloud is a fully managed database service for MariaDB on AWS, Microsoft Azure and Google Cloud. MariaDB handles provisioning, patching, upgrades, backups and scaling, so your team can focus on building applications. Choose serverless for spiky workloads or provisioned capacity for steady production, and run it in our cloud or yours.
Bring Your Own Cloud is a deployment model where MariaDB Cloud runs directly in your own cloud account instead of ours. You get the fully managed MariaDB experience while keeping control of the infrastructure it runs on.
Key benefits include:
- Total infrastructure control: Deploy into your own cloud environment and keep it under your own governance and security policies.
- Use your existing credits: Apply your existing cloud credits and committed spend to your database infrastructure.
- Fully managed operations: Offload patching, security updates and version upgrades to MariaDB, so your team can focus on innovation instead of database administration.
- Built for mission-critical workloads: Get the same automated high availability and self-healing resilience that MariaDB Cloud delivers everywhere.
Microsoft retired its Azure Database for MariaDB service on September 19, 2025. However, MariaDB is not deprecated on Azure. MariaDB remains fully supported on Azure infrastructure through MariaDB Cloud, the official cloud database service from the creators of MariaDB.
We offer migration tools and expert support to help you move your databases from Azure Database for MariaDB to MariaDB Cloud with minimal downtime. Contact us to learn more.
MariaDB Cloud is engineered to provide superior performance and dramatically better price-performance than Amazon Aurora.
In a recent benchmark comparing MariaDB Cloud with Amazon Aurora, MariaDB Cloud consistently came out on top. The results showed MariaDB Cloud delivers:
3x higher throughput: To power more demanding, transaction-heavy applications.
2.5x lower latency: For faster query response times and a better end-user experience.
7x better price-performance: Allowing you to achieve significantly more performance for every dollar of your cloud spend.
Read the benchmark
Serverless is a cloud database model where you get all the power of a database without managing any of the infrastructure. It automatically provides resources on demand, scaling to precisely match your application’s needs.
Key benefits include:
Instant deployment: Launch a database in seconds.
Effortless scaling: Automatically scales resources up for peak traffic and back down for quiet periods.
No idle costs: When not in use, compute can scale to zero, so you don’t pay for idle time.
Pay-for-use billing: Pay only for the resources you consume, which is ideal for variable workloads like dev/test, payment apps and online games.
MariaDB Cloud is a fully managed database service for MariaDB and MySQL-compatible applications. When you create a service, you choose:
Deployment: Serverless scales automatically and bills only for what you use. Provisioned gives you fixed, predictable resources for production.
High availability: Semi-sync for automatic failover through MaxScale, Galera Cluster for synchronous multi-primary replication, or a single node for development and testing.
Add-ons (public preview): Analytics (HTAP) for real-time analytics on live data, and Query Result Cache for faster repeated queries.
Every service includes automated backups, monitoring, alerts and logs.
MariaDB Cloud is a fully managed service, which means we handle the operational burden of maintenance for you. Our team of experts manages all routine software patching, security updates and version upgrades. You can configure your preferred maintenance windows to minimize disruption to your application. This lets your team focus on innovation, not on routine database administration.
Launching a database with MariaDB Cloud is quick and simple. This step-by-step tutorial details how to spin up your free serverless database in minutes.