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Decide whether a regional or zonal Cloud SQL instance best meets your availability, cost, and operational needs. Compare key trade‑offs, and see how to validate your choice with a failover test and cost check.
Connect a Cloud Run service to a private Cloud SQL instance using a Serverless VPC Access connector and the Cloud SQL Auth Proxy. Learn the minimal architecture, trust boundaries, operational checks, failure modes, and triggers for redesign.
Configure Cloud SQL high availability with a synchronous standby in another zone. Covers gcloud setup, failover testing, cost, and tier limits.
Learn how to run the Cloud SQL Proxy on a Compute Engine VM, authenticate with IAM, and connect to Cloud SQL without managing SSL certificates.
Learn how to run Cloud SQL Auth proxy as a sidecar in Cloud Run, use IAM database users, and verify the connection without storing passwords.
Learn how to connect a Cloud Run service to private Cloud resources using a VPC connector, with a minimal design, IAM setup, monitoring, and failure‑mode handling.
Learn how to offload read traffic from a Cloud SQL primary instance to a read replica, reducing latency and cost while keeping writes on the primary.
Eliminate SSL certificates and IP whitelists for Cloud SQL by using the Auth Proxy on Compute Engine. A step‑by‑step guide shows how to set up a service account, install the proxy, and connect PostgreSQL locally. Learn the trade‑offs, verify the connection, and secure your database access with IAM.
Enable Cloud SQL point-in-time recovery correctly (backups plus transaction logs), clone an instance to a UTC timestamp, verify the clone, and run a drill that proves the window is real.
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