Google recently announced increased support for Microsoft Windows Server and SQL Server in the Google Cloud Platform (GCP). Google now provides pre-configured images for Windows Server Core and SQL Server Enterprise Edition. In addition to SQL Server Enterprise Edition support, Google is also providing support for High-availability (HA) and Disaster Recovery (DR) scenarios through SQL Server AlwaysOn Availability Groups and persistent disk snapshots integrated with Volume Shadow Copy Service (VSS) on Windows Server.
Google initially announced support for SQL Server Standard Edition back in August 2016 and now provides support for pre-configured Enterprise Edition images, in Beta, for:
For customers that implement these images, they will pay by the minute, similar to Microsoft Azure’s pricing model. Customers can also bring their own licenses ( BYOL ) where Microsoft Software Assurance (SA) contracts can be utilized.
For customers who may struggle with the idea of running a Microsoft SQL Server workload in another cloud, Chris Sells, a former program manager at Microsoft, now senior product manager at Google, offers the following:
In the Google world, we are much more open.
