1) some people consider isolation a feature. if you don’t want to use the serverless connector which grants access securely, and privately, just use the public

1) some people consider isolation a feature. if you don’t want to use the serverless connector which grants access securely, and privately, just use the public instance IP. you’ll have to explain how it’s a single point of failure, I don’t get that, it’s a managed service, I think. 2) datagrip is great. what do you want in an SQL web UI? install phpmyadmin if you want. you do not have to spin up a bastion host — simply add a public IP. you either want an isolated database or you don’t. second batch of questions: 1) serverless from GCP isn’t overpriced, if you abuse it and scale up your workloads 24/7, you will pay for it. in that case, you should move to GKE or GCE anyway. at scale 0 for intermittent services, Cloud Run pricing had been great. 2) no, lots of people run GKE, or Cloud Run, or Batch, or App Engine. 3) yes, what a silly question 4) no, what a silly question