Cloud SQL is a fully managed relational database service for MySQL, PostgreSQL, and SQL Server. Cloud SQL easily integrates with existing applications and Google Cloud services such as Google Kubernetes Engine and BigQuery.
Best practices
Cloud SQL high availability - an overview of the high availability configuration for Cloud SQL, including handling read replicas and the failover process. Also includes how to control the timing of database maintenance events, and how the use of regional persistent disk in the HA configuration affects database performance. This content is divided into three sections:
Cloud SQL database disaster recovery - an overview of the disaster recovery configuration for Cloud SQL using a cross-region read replica.
General best practices for Cloud SQL - guidance on configuring instances, data architecture, importing and exporting data, and backup and recovery. This content is divided into three sections:
Best practices for importing and exporting data - under what circumstances Cloud Storage buckets cannot be used, compressing data to reduce costs, known limitations with importing and exporting data, how to automate export operations, and troubleshooting import and export operations.