Google Cloud SQL is no replacement for Amazon RDS in my opinion.  Cloud SQL instances run outside of your project&#x27;s private network, so connections from Google Compute Engine have to be over a Public IP.  This means accepting connections from any host (insecure) or whitelisting each Google Compute Engine VM&#x27;s IP address (pain in the ass).<p>I&#x27;ve resorted to running my own MySQL instance inside of Google Compute Engine and setting up replication and off-site backups myself.  It&#x27;s definitely not as convenient as Amazon RDS, but the rest of Google Cloud has some great features like Google Container Engine.<p>Would love to see an RDS-like solution from Google that runs in a project&#x27;s private network and supports more than just MySQL.