I know its not the same, but google has a managed mysql offering (https://cloud.google.com/sql/ https://cloud.google.com/sql/). Depending on what you are doing

I know its not the same, but google has a managed mysql offering (https://cloud.google.com/sql/ https://cloud.google.com/sql/). Depending on what you are doing it may be sufficient. My experience with the sql azure performance has been pretty lackluster when comparing with sql running on even a tiny vm.