Cloud SQL blue-green deployments
Keeping production databases on supported versions shouldn’t require giving up your weekend. To stay secure, compliant, and with the best performance and newest AI capabilities, organizations need to run on the latest database engine versions. Yet for many teams, major version upgrades mean weeks of cross-team coordination, negotiating narrow maintenance windows, and hours of application downtime. In an era where mission-critical applications and AI agents operate as 24/7 systems of action, even a brief maintenance outage can mean disrupted customer experiences and lost revenue.
To help, we are excited to announce the preview of fully managed blue-green deployments in Cloud SQL, starting with Cloud SQL for MySQL. You can now execute major version upgrades and configuration updates with minimal downtime via the Google Cloud console or automated CLI scripts. By continuously synchronizing a parallel environment, teams can safely test with production data before a seamless cutover — all while...
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