Wednesday, February 12, 2014

Google Cloud SQL goes GA



Finally Google Cloud SQL (mysql version 5.5 in the cloud) has reached General Availability status. With this comes an SLA of 99.95 for this service. All customer data is encrypted too.

Google Cloud SQL supports all the features of MySQL. For unsupported feature and differences follow the next link. Data Storage is limited to 250 GB by default. As to programming languages that you can use - only two are supported, Python and Java.

Frequently asked questions about Google Cloud SQL is here:
https://developers.google.com/cloud-sql/faq#whatissql

Pricing information is here:
https://cloud.google.com/products/cloud-sql/#pricing. There is a special price with discount for developers experiencing more traffic. On demand pricing comparable to Amazon's RDS for SQL Server.

More information here:

http://googlecloudplatform.blogspot.com/2014/02/google-cloud-sql-now-generally-available.html

and here:

http://techcrunch.com/2014/02/11/googles-cloud-sql-hits-general-availability-gets-an-sla-encryption-and-support-for-larger-databases/

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