> 1) It is so weird to me that every cloud provider deletes backups when you delete the SQL instance. Not actually true for Google Cloud CloudSQL (at least MyS

> 1) It is so weird to me that every cloud provider deletes backups when you delete the SQL instance. Not actually true for Google Cloud CloudSQL (at least MySQL). You can delete the instance and you don't see any backups any more in the Google Cloud Console, but they are actually there and you can restore from them. You need to know the instance name though. I think the backups will be kept for 30 days. This is the same time you can't reuse the instance name. Google could improve the UI about this a lot and display also deleted instances.