6 engineers on Hacker News describe using Google Cloud SQL first-hand: 1 endorse it, 1 regret it, 1 are mixed.
“Import/export can often lock up a CloudSQL instance, whereas it might work fine on a local instance.”
regret · production · 0xbadcafebee · 2024-06-18 · source ↗ · wrong label?“CloudSQL works great and the serverless networking connector isn't a big deal.”
endorse · production · busterarm · 2022-09-24 · source ↗ · wrong label?“overall it is good but there are a number of glaring and frustrating feature holes”
mixed · production · jacobkg · 2021-06-05 · source ↗ · wrong label?“Had been using Cloud SQL as my managed db and now running Postgres on my own dedicated hardware.”
neutral · production · slroger · 2025-12-20 · source ↗ · wrong label?“we run on e2-standard-2 and pay ~500 per month... 6 nodes + 2 managed cloud sql databases+several load balancers.”
neutral · production · merb · 2020-12-09 · source ↗ · wrong label?“I'm using Cloud SQL and would like to understand the risk.”
neutral · production · patwolf · 2019-01-29 · source ↗ · wrong label?