> ## Documentation Index > The index for all IBM Cloud docs is at: https://cloud.ibm.com/docs/llms.txt > Use these files to discover more information as needed. # IBM Cloud Databases for MySQL IBM Cloud Databases for MySQL is a serverless, cloud database service that is fully integrated into the IBM Cloud environment. Use IBM Cloud Databases for MySQL to use a cloud database system without purchasing and setting up your own hardware, installing your own database software, or managing the database yourself. ## Get started - [IBM Cloud Databases](https://cloud.ibm.com/docs/cloud-databases?format=markdown) - [What is MySQL?](https://www.ibm.com/cloud/databases-for-mysql) - [Getting started with Databases for MySQL](https://cloud.ibm.com/docs/databases-for-mysql?topic=databases-for-mysql-getting-started&format=markdown) - Hosting models - [Hosting models overview](https://cloud.ibm.com/docs/databases-for-mysql?topic=databases-for-mysql-hosting-models&format=markdown) - [Hosting models transition timeline and transition placement](https://cloud.ibm.com/docs/databases-for-mysql?topic=databases-for-mysql-hosting-model-transition&format=markdown) - [Hosting models FAQ](https://cloud.ibm.com/docs/databases-for-mysql?topic=databases-for-mysql-hosting-models-faq&format=markdown) - [Hosting models pricing](https://cloud.ibm.com/docs/databases-for-mysql?topic=databases-for-mysql-hosting-pricing&format=markdown) - [The Dashboard overview](https://cloud.ibm.com/docs/databases-for-mysql?topic=databases-for-mysql-dashboard-overview&format=markdown) - [Performance](https://cloud.ibm.com/docs/databases-for-mysql?topic=databases-for-mysql-performance&format=markdown) - [Pricing](https://cloud.ibm.com/docs/databases-for-mysql?topic=databases-for-mysql-pricing&format=markdown) - [Release notes](https://cloud.ibm.com/docs/databases-for-mysql?topic=databases-for-mysql-mysql-relnotes&format=markdown) - [Gen 2 docs](https://cloud.ibm.com/docs/databases-for-mysql-gen2?format=markdown) ## How to - [Provisioning](https://cloud.ibm.com/docs/databases-for-mysql?topic=databases-for-mysql-provisioning&format=markdown) - [Managing users, roles, and privileges](https://cloud.ibm.com/docs/databases-for-mysql?topic=databases-for-mysql-user-management&format=markdown) - [Upgrading to a new Major Version](https://cloud.ibm.com/docs/databases-for-mysql?topic=databases-for-mysql-mysql-upgrading&format=markdown) - [Databases for MySQL 8.4 GA](https://cloud.ibm.com/docs/databases-for-mysql?topic=databases-for-mysql-mysql8.4-ga&format=markdown) - [Getting connection strings](https://cloud.ibm.com/docs/databases-for-mysql?topic=databases-for-mysql-connection-strings&format=markdown) - [Migrating resources to a different data center](https://cloud.ibm.com/docs/databases-for-mysql?topic=databases-for-mysql-migrate-data-center&format=markdown) - [Understanding high availability for Cloud Databases](https://cloud.ibm.com/docs/databases-for-mysql?topic=databases-for-mysql-ha-dr&format=markdown) - Connecting to Databases for MySQL - [Connecting an external application](https://cloud.ibm.com/docs/databases-for-mysql?topic=databases-for-mysql-external-app&format=markdown) - [Connecting an IBM Cloud application](https://cloud.ibm.com/docs/databases-for-mysql?topic=databases-for-mysql-ibmcloud-app&format=markdown) - [Connecting with mysql](https://cloud.ibm.com/docs/databases-for-mysql?topic=databases-for-mysql-connecting-mysql&format=markdown) - Managing resources - [Scaling disk, RAM, and CPU](https://cloud.ibm.com/docs/databases-for-mysql?topic=databases-for-mysql-resources-scaling&format=markdown) - [Autoscaling](https://cloud.ibm.com/docs/databases-for-mysql?topic=databases-for-mysql-autoscaling-mysql&format=markdown) - [Managing MySQL Connections](https://cloud.ibm.com/docs/databases-for-mysql?topic=databases-for-mysql-managing-mysql-connections&format=markdown) - [Managing Cloud Databases backups](https://cloud.ibm.com/docs/databases-for-mysql?topic=databases-for-mysql-dashboard-backups&format=markdown) - [Point-in-time Recovery](https://cloud.ibm.com/docs/databases-for-mysql?topic=databases-for-mysql-pitr&format=markdown) - [Configuring read replicas](https://cloud.ibm.com/docs/databases-for-mysql?topic=databases-for-mysql-read-replicas&format=markdown) - [Migrating to Databases for MySQL](https://cloud.ibm.com/docs/databases-for-mysql?topic=databases-for-mysql-migrating&format=markdown) - Configuring MySQL - [Changing your deployment configuration](https://cloud.ibm.com/docs/databases-for-mysql?topic=databases-for-mysql-changing-configuration&format=markdown) - Tutorials - [Creating an IBM Cloud® Databases for MySQL instance Tutorial](https://cloud.ibm.com/docs/databases-for-mysql?topic=databases-for-mysql-mysql-create-instance-tutorial&format=markdown) - [Deploying and connecting a Cloud Databases instance ](https://cloud.ibm.com/docs/databases-for-mysql?topic=databases-for-mysql-create-instance-tutorial&format=markdown) - [Provision a Databases for PostgreSQL instance with Terraform](https://cloud.ibm.com/docs/databases-for-mysql?topic=databases-for-mysql-tutorial-provision-postgres-tf&format=markdown) - [Connect a Cloud Databases deployment to an IBM Cloud Kubernetes Service application](https://cloud.ibm.com/docs/databases-for-mysql?topic=databases-for-mysql-tutorial-k8s-app&format=markdown) - [Truck Tracker: An IoT pattern using OpenShift and other IBM Cloud services](https://cloud.ibm.com/docs/databases-for-mysql?topic=databases-for-mysql-truck-tracker-ibmcloud&format=markdown) - [Setting up disk alerts for disk utilization](https://cloud.ibm.com/docs/databases-for-mysql?topic=databases-for-mysql-disk-util-alert-tutorial&format=markdown) - Observability - [Set up logging and monitoring](https://cloud.ibm.com/docs/databases-for-mysql?topic=databases-for-mysql-getting-started-cdb-logging-monitoring&format=markdown) - [Logging for Cloud Databases](https://cloud.ibm.com/docs/databases-for-mysql?topic=databases-for-mysql-logging&format=markdown) - [Monitoring integration](https://cloud.ibm.com/docs/databases-for-mysql?topic=databases-for-mysql-monitoring&format=markdown) - [Activity tracking events for Cloud Databases](https://cloud.ibm.com/docs/databases-for-mysql?topic=databases-for-mysql-at_events&format=markdown) - Enhancing security - [Managing security and compliance with Cloud Databases](https://cloud.ibm.com/docs/databases-for-mysql?topic=databases-for-mysql-manage-security-compliance&format=markdown) - [Security and compliance](https://cloud.ibm.com/docs/databases-for-mysql?topic=databases-for-mysql-security-compliance&format=markdown) - [Context-based restrictions](https://cloud.ibm.com/docs/databases-for-mysql?topic=databases-for-mysql-cbr&format=markdown) - [Example context-based restrictions scenarios](https://cloud.ibm.com/docs/databases-for-mysql?topic=databases-for-mysql-cbr-tutorial&format=markdown) - [Service endpoints integration](https://cloud.ibm.com/docs/databases-for-mysql?topic=databases-for-mysql-service-endpoints&format=markdown) - [Allowlisting](https://cloud.ibm.com/docs/databases-for-mysql?topic=databases-for-mysql-allowlisting&format=markdown) - [Virtual Private Endpoints ](https://cloud.ibm.com/docs/databases-for-mysql?topic=databases-for-mysql-vpes&format=markdown) - [Key Protect integration](https://cloud.ibm.com/docs/databases-for-mysql?topic=databases-for-mysql-key-protect&format=markdown) - [Identity and Access Management integration](https://cloud.ibm.com/docs/databases-for-mysql?topic=databases-for-mysql-iam&format=markdown) - [Hyper Protect Crypto Services integration](https://cloud.ibm.com/docs/databases-for-mysql?topic=databases-for-mysql-hpcs&format=markdown) - [Deleting your deployment and removing your data](https://cloud.ibm.com/docs/databases-for-mysql?topic=databases-for-mysql-deprovisioning&format=markdown) ## Reference - [Cloud Databases through the CLI](https://cloud.ibm.com/docs/databases-for-mysql?topic=databases-for-mysql-icd-cli&format=markdown) - [Cloud Databases API](https://cloud.ibm.com/apidocs/cloud-databases-api) - [Versioning policy](https://cloud.ibm.com/docs/databases-for-mysql?topic=databases-for-mysql-versioning-policy&format=markdown) - [Getting to production for Cloud Databases](https://cloud.ibm.com/docs/databases-for-mysql?topic=databases-for-mysql-getting-to-production&format=markdown) - [Shared responsibilities for Cloud Databases](https://cloud.ibm.com/docs/databases-for-mysql?topic=databases-for-mysql-responsibilities-cloud-databases&format=markdown) - [Best practices](https://cloud.ibm.com/docs/databases-for-mysql?topic=databases-for-mysql-best-practices&format=markdown) - [Understanding high availability and disaster recovery](https://cloud.ibm.com/docs/databases-for-mysql?topic=databases-for-mysql-mysql-ha-dr&format=markdown) - [Data portability](https://cloud.ibm.com/docs/databases-for-mysql?topic=databases-for-mysql-data-portability&format=markdown) ## Help - Troubleshooting - [Why can’t I connect to my MySQL deployment?](https://cloud.ibm.com/docs/databases-for-mysql?topic=databases-for-mysql-troubleshoot-connect&format=markdown) - [Why is there a delay when restoring my IBM Cloud® Databases for MySQL deployment?](https://cloud.ibm.com/docs/databases-for-mysql?topic=databases-for-mysql-troubleshoot-delay&format=markdown) - [Why did Terraform replace my instance?](https://cloud.ibm.com/docs/databases-for-mysql?topic=databases-for-mysql-troubleshoot-terraform&format=markdown) - FAQs - [Backing up Databases for MySQL FAQ](https://cloud.ibm.com/docs/databases-for-mysql?topic=databases-for-mysql-faq-mysql-backups&format=markdown) - [Availability zones FAQ](https://cloud.ibm.com/docs/databases-for-mysql?topic=databases-for-mysql-faq-availability-zones&format=markdown) - [IBM Cloud® platform and service FAQ](https://cloud.ibm.com/docs/databases-for-mysql?topic=databases-for-mysql-ibm-cloud-status&format=markdown) - [Resource configuration FAQ](https://cloud.ibm.com/docs/databases-for-mysql?topic=databases-for-mysql-faq-resource-config&format=markdown) - [Certificates FAQ](https://cloud.ibm.com/docs/databases-for-mysql?topic=databases-for-mysql-faq-cert&format=markdown)