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	✓	✓