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Google released Cloud SQL in limited preview back in 2011, and has only at present launched general availability.

It was first conceived of as an add-directly to Google App Engine, but Google has since launched Compute Engine, and it really works as a “database backbone” for apps running on either.

With general availability, Cloud SQL gets encryption of purchaser data, a 99.95% uptime SLA, and support for databases as much as 500GB in size.

Cloud SQL instances can store that quantity, with the smallest D0 instance costing $0.025 per hour up, and at the other end of the spectrum, D32 with 16GB of RAM costing $46.84 per day.

“Your data is replicated multiple times in multiple zones and automatically backed up, all included within the price of the service,” says Google Cloud product manager Joe Faith. “And you just pay for the storage which you actually use, so that you don’t ought to reserve this storage beforehand.”

“Replicated storage means we will be able to guarantee 99.95% availability of the service,” he adds. “And because even a discounted service just isn’t acceptable for plenty of applications, now we have set a high bar for availability: as an example, we regard a single minute of just 20% connection failure as a downtime.”

Google says Cloud SQL has already seen “great” developer traction with customers including Costco, LiveHive, Ocado and LiveStream.

Last year, Google launched the Cloud SQL API.

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