Speaking for myself and not for the company (I only joined Cloud SQL in October), given limited time/people/money, I'd have made the same choice. Everything on

Speaking for myself and not for the company (I only joined Cloud SQL in October), given limited time/people/money, I'd have made the same choice. Everything on the web can run on MySQL, or has a connector to do so. Postgres, even a year or two ago, was a lot more difficult. Things are different now with the popularity of Postgres, but that's how we got from there to here. The goal of Cloud is to provide the building blocks so people can make great products. The quickest way to making good stuff is to use the same tools that everyone is already familiar with, and I think that's why Cloud SQL exists. If you want more "touch" on the database for more power, there's Cloud Datastore [1]. But we support companies like Costco on Cloud SQL, so it's good for a lot of folks. https://cloud.google.com/products/cloud-datastore/ https://cloud.google.com/products/cloud-datastore/