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Reducing Cloud SQL DB Sizes
Cloud SQL is a good place for waste to hide. You pay for what you provision, not what you use. So here’s how to reduce what you provision. For Google Cloud SQL instances, CPU Utilization and Memory Utilization are good indicators of whether they’re the right size. Here’s a script that shows which Cloud SQL…
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How To Delete Cloud SQL DBs You Don’t Need
Deleting even a db-n1-standard-2 Cloud SQL database will save $97 a month. So you could save hundreds a month by looking at unused Cloud SQL DBs. These will usually be dev or staging databases, though they won’t always be in a dev or staging project. If they’re still running, it means it wasn’t easy to…