Today MariaDB Corporation officially launched SkySQL, a cloud-hosted version of the MariaDB database management system supported and managed by MariaDB’s own creators.
Aside from providing convenient access to MariaDB on Google Cloud Platform starting at $0.45 per hour, SkySQL strikes back at services like Google Cloud SQL and Amazon RDS — managed database solutions that feature forks of MySQL or MariaDB, but are often multiple versions behind the latest releases. Amazon RDS, for instance, only supports up to MariaDB 10.3, whereas MariaDB 10.4.12 is the most recent version.