thomasgauvin: MySQL for Hyperdrive announcement

Author: thomasgauvin

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+title: Hyperdrive introduces support for MySQL and MySQL-compatible databases
+description: You can now connect to MySQL databases from your Workers using Hyperdrive for optimal performance
+products:
+  - hyperdrive
+date: 2025-04-08T14:00:00Z
+---
+
+![Hyperdrive query latency decreases by 90% during Hyperdrive's gradual rollout of regional pooling.](~/assets/images/hyperdrive/configuration/hyperdrive-hero.png)
+
+Hyperdrive now supports connecting to MySQL and MySQL-compatible databases, including Amazon RDS and Aurora MySQL, Google Cloud SQL for MySQL, Azure Database for MySQL, Planetscale, and MariaDB.
+
+Hyperdrive makes your regional, MySQL databases fast when connecting from Cloudflare Workers. It eliminates unnecessary network roundtrips
+during connection setup, pools database connections globally and can cache query results to provide the fastest possible response times.
+
+Best of all, you can connect using your existing drivers, ORMs and query builders with Hyperdrive's secure credentials, no code changes required.
+
+Learn more about [how Hyperdrive works](/hyperdrive/configuration/how-hyperdrive-works/) and [get started with Hyperdrive for MySQL](/hyperdrive/get-started/).