Google Cloud SQL general availability brings support for databases up to 500GB in size and more.

Connectikpeople.co praises this new important milestone achieved by the Google Cloud Platform in its commitment to provide a database backbone for applications running on Google App Engine or Google Compute Engine. If unfamiliar, Google Cloud SQL  aims to be a fully managed MySQL service hosted on Google Cloud Platform.

With its general availability, henceforth we talk about encryption of data, a 99.95% uptime SLA, and support for databases up to 500GB in size announced.

Meaning that, Cloud SQL data is now automatically encrypted features like:

• Data, including in database tables and temporary files, will be automatically stored encrypted.
• All Cloud SQL traffic on Google’s internal networks is encrypted.
• External connections can be encrypted using SSL.
• All hosts and Google App Engine applications connecting to your instance must be explicitly authorized.
• MySQL user grants can be used to control access at the database, table, or even column level.
• Data is replicated multiple times in multiple locations.
• Scheduled backups are automatically taken by default.

Google also announces that, all Cloud SQL instances can now store up to 500GB, from their smallest D0 instance costing just $0.025 per hour up to D32 instances with 16GB of RAM.

You can learn more about Google Cloud SQL here.