![]() Block storage, while giving us the performance we want, unfortunately is a bit more challenging to shrink down to size. There’s not (yet) a good way to simply shrink the size of your Cloud SQL instance’s disk. ![]() And while the adage “Storage is cheap” might be true, if you’re renting it instead, you want to be sure you’re not paying for too much space you’re not using. Thankfully you’ve now fixed the application bug and your database isn’t being overrun anymore, but the damage has been done and now your disk is much bigger than it needs to be. But this time a mistake causes your storage to spike much higher than it normally would. Most of the time, this is a lifesaving feature that prevents downtime due to a gradually increasing database running out of space. And now your instance has made happy use of the feature of automatically expanding your storage when you get close to running out of disk space. So you made a mistake, you pushed an application change that accidentally caused a massive surge of data to hit your database.
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