Today, we’re announcing that Cloud SQL, our fully managed database service for MySQL, PostgreSQL, and SQL Server, now supports MySQL 8. This means you get access to a variety of powerful new features—such as instant DDL statements (e.g. ADD COLUMN), atomic DDL, privilege collection using roles, window functions, and extended JSON syntax - to help you be more productive. And, as a managed service, we’ll ensure your MySQL 8 deployments help you stay stable and more secure. You’ll get automatic patches and updates, as well as our maintenance controls so you can reduce the risk associated with upgrades. More so, we’ve fully integrated it with Cloud SQL’s high availability configuration and security controls, to make sure your MySQL 8 database instance is enterprise ready.

High availability and Disaster Recovery

Considering a wide variety of failure scenarios, from localized problems to widespread issues, is an important party of business continuity planning. With MySQL 8 on Cloud SQL, you enable high availability (HA) to ensure your database workloads are automatically fault tolerant in the event of an instance-level problem or even a zone outage.

We’ve worked closely with Cloud SQL customers facing business continuity challenges to simplify their experience with support for cross-region replication. Cross region replication for MySQL 8 is supported in all Google Cloud regions.

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