Cloud SQL feature support by database engine

This page lists the main features of Cloud SQL and indicates which database engines support these features.

The checkmarks in Table 1 contain links to related topics.

Table 1. Cloud SQL features

MySQL PostgreSQL SQL Server
Data protection Backups ✓ ✓ ✓
Point-in-time recovery (PITR) ✓ ✓ ✓
High availability ✓ ✓ ✓
Cloning ✓ ✓ ✓
Disaster recovery ✓ ✓ ✓
Data migration Data migration to external servers ✓
Logs Instance logging ✓ ✓ ✓
Planned maintenance Maintenance windows ✓ ✓ ✓
Maintenance controls ✓ ✓ ✓
Self service maintenance ✓ ✓ ✓
Replication Read replicas ✓ ✓ ✓
Cross-region read replicas ✓ ✓ ✓
External read replicas ✓ ✓ ✓
Binary logging on read replicas ✓
Replication from an external server ✓ ✓
Read replica indexes stored procedures ✓
Logical replication ✓
Security Customer-managed encryption keys (CMEK) ✓ ✓ ✓
Cloud SQL Auth Proxy support ✓ ✓ ✓
Audit logging ✓ ✓ ✓
Connection organization policies ✓ ✓ ✓
IAM database authentication ✓ ✓
Access Transparency (AXT) ✓ ✓ ✓
Key Access Justification ✓ ✓ ✓
Private Service Connect ✓ ✓ ✓
Cloud Security Command Center Monitoring ✓ ✓ ✓
Cloud External Key Manager (EKM) ✓ ✓ ✓
VPC Service Controls ✓ ✓ ✓
Insights Query Insights ✓ ✓

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Last updated 2025年11月03日 UTC.