[obulpathi]

Relational Databases is one key area where Google Cloud can improve. Adding support for the most used databases (Maria, Postgres and may be Google own version of SQL-like AWS Aurora to support large data stores) and easing the migration path for companies to move their databases into Cloud can ease a lot of customer pain. This can accelerate the migration to Cloud much faster. It is very difficult for companies to move to Cloud and adopt NoSQL stores simultaneously.

[mikecb]

https://cloud.google.com/sql/docs/introduction

[obulpathi]

I know. Compared to Amazon's offering of MySQL, MariaDb, Aurora, SQL Server and Oracle, Google MySQL offering looks not so good. It's hard to persuade everyone to migrate to MySQL. Everyone has their own reason to use different databases.

[mikecb]

Oh yeah, in terms of variety, totally true. I tend to just spin up a compute instance if I need any one of those though.

[devsquid]

Their managed SQL service doesn't support Postgresql and POSTGIS, its the only thing stopping me from move over to GCN.

[shawn-butler]

Trust me, it won't be the only thing.

It's just the first roadblock.

[devsquid]

Oh? I have found the GCN to be quite impressive. Their prices are very cheap and i've found their international offerings to be next to none. What issues have you had?