Making it easy for enterprise customers to move production databases to the cloud,  Google Cloud has announced that its serverless Database Migration Service is available in preview. 

This will enable users/customers to migrate to SQL Server databases,PostgreSQL, and MySQL  from on-premises environments or other clouds. 

"With Database Migration Service, we're delivering a simplified and highly compatible product experience so that, no matter where our customers are starting from, they have an easy, and secure way to migrate their databases to Cloud SQL," said Andi Gutmans, General Manager, and Vice President, Engineering, Databases at Google Cloud.

Avoiding incompatibilities between source and destination, especially for metadata operations, customers can reap DMS to take advantage of its native replication capabilities. 

"HCL customers across every industry are moving to the cloud to be more agile, secure and scalable, and looking for a trusted partner to deliver an end-to-end experience to migrate their production workloads without disrupting their business," said Sanjay Singh, Vice President & Head of HCL Google Cloud Ecosystem at HCL. 

"Database Migration Service accelerates their migration path to help them unlock the benefits of Google Cloud databases."