Cloud SQL
Cloud SQL is a fully managed database service that makes it easy to set up, maintain, manage, and administer your relational databases on the Google Cloud Platform. It supports up to 99.99% availability and supports up to 64 TB of storage, with the ability to automatically increase storage size as needed. You can use Cloud SQL with MySQL, PostgreSQL, and SQL Server.
As we already discussed, Cloud SQL is a fully managed database and Google will take care of all operational activities including minor version upgrades, backup, recovery, scaling (if user configures for it), failover, monitoring, authorization, networking, security, observability, and so on. The following are some of its key features:
- Cloud SQL provides integration to other Google Cloud services such as Cloud Run, GKE, Cloud Functions, BigQuery, and Compute Engine
- It has secure access
- It has high availability with its zonal/regional database replication feature
- It can scale up by adding...
