The database administration team seeks assistance in enhancing the performance of their new database server hosted on Compute Engine. This MySQL-based database serves to import and normalize the company's performance statistics and operates on Debian Linux. The current setup consists of an n1-standard-8 virtual machine with an 80 GB SSD zonal persistent disk, which cannot be restarted until the next maintenance event. What change should they implement to promptly and cost-effectively improve system performance?