Ensure Cloud SQL instances have high availability configured
Production databases should use high availability configuration.
Security Impact
Single zone instances have no automatic failover capability.
How to Remediate
Enable high availability (regional) for production instances.
Affected Resources
Compliance Frameworks
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Check Details
- Check ID
- gcp-sql-7
- Service
- Google Cloud SQL
- Category
- Availability
- Severity
- MEDIUM
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