Google Cloud SQL provides a fully managed database service for Google App Engine applications.
Hosted on Google's infrastructure and based on the familiar MySQL database, Google Cloud SQL
automatically provisions and maintains your databases, allowing you to focus on your
applications and services.
In March, we were delighted to welcome our 10,000th developer on Google Cloud SQL, joining
businesses like Daffodil,
who halved their development time by building on Google's platform.
Since the preview launch in October 2011, we’ve been busy working on improving the
performance, adding features like scheduled backups, and multihoming to increase availability
and improve performance. We are also now offering more powerful instances with up to 4GB of
RAM. Today, we are announcing our pricing, with two options to choose from:
For developers who want to try out the service, or who have lightweight
applications, we offer a flexible "per use" pricing scheme. For example, you can get started
with a cloud hosted MySQL database for around a dollar per month. You pay for just what you
use.
For developers with more traffic, there are package plans that are more economical
and help you predict your costs in advance.
Joe Faith is a Product Manager on the Google Cloud Team. In a previous life he was a
researcher in machine learning, bioinformatics, and information visualization, and was founder
of charity fundraising site Fundraising
Skills.
