Cloud SQL is a managed service, meaning your instances should remain healthy and available without the need for human intervention. However, there are quite a few operational tasks and settings that teams will likely want to customize in order to fine-tune their Cloud SQL instances to meet the specific needs of a given application.
Managing Cloud SQL instances
Maintenance operations
More than likely, the most common operations that teams will want to perform on their Cloud SQL instances will be related to data management. Such operations include creating and restoring backups, and exporting or importing data from external sources. Cloud SQL offers simple interfaces for performing each of these tasks.
