Relational databases have been a cornerstone of mission-critical systems for decades, to the point of largely becoming ubiquitous. For many, a primary driver of public cloud adoption is the move to managed services, and the time and resources those managed services free up. It makes sense that moving to a managed database solution should be high on anybody's list. With Cloud SQL, Google provides developers with the technology they're already familiar with: MySQL and PostgreSQL, but with all the benefits of a fully managed service.
Cloud SQL provides an easy on-ramp for companies looking to perform a traditional lift-and-shift cloud migration, as well as a great starting point for building new, cloud-native solutions. Teams can have a production ready database up and running at the click of a button, and seamlessly scale that database in compute and storage as...
