Cloud SQL for SQL server read pools are now generally available and provide operational simplicity and scaling for your read workloads.

Cloud SQL for SQL server read pools are now generally available and provide operational simplicity and scaling for your read workloads.

Read pools provide a single endpoint in front of up to seven read pool nodes and automatically load balance traffic.

You can scale your read pool in several ways:

• Scale in or out: scale load balancing capacity horizontally by modifying the number of read pool nodes in the read pool. Each read pool supports between 1 and 7 read pool nodes. • Scale up or down: scale load balancing capacity vertically by modifying the machine type associated with a read pool node. Once defined, configuration is uniformly applied across each read pool node in the read pool.

For more information, see About read pools.