Generally Available: Azure Database for MySQL – Flexible Server now supports high availability with dedicated Azure Standard Load Balancer

Announcing the general availability of a dedicated Azure Standard Load Balancer in Azure Database for MySQL - Flexible Server for high availability-enabled servers. With this feature, a high availability configuration gets the benefit of a dedicated Standard Load Balancer, including low latency, high throughput network traffic distribution of front-end requests to backend servers. With Standard Load Balancer managing the MySQL data traffic path, you can enjoy a more optimized failover time for high availability servers. 

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