[simonmorley]

The proxy solution looks OK, shame it wasn't mentioned in the blog unless I'm blind.

Lack of private IPs has been the single reason why we've not moved our current dbs over. I'm sure it's hard but you're Google after all o_0

[gtaylor]

Pretty much the same situation for us, too.

[slatkovi]

I was really excited about the possibility of using Cloud SQL. Unfortunately, the lack of private IP whitelisting forces you to make some tradeoffs that don't make sense from the security perspective.