Introducing Cloud SQL Authentication via IAM groups: Simplify database authentication and access at scale

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Managing and auditing data access can be very complex at scale, in particular, for a fleet of databases with a myriad of users. Today, we are introducing IAM group authentication for Cloud SQL. With this launch, you can take advantage of better security, simplify user management and database authentication at scale, and empower database and security administrators to manage database access via familiar IAM-based authentication. Cloud SQL IAM group authentication is advanced group-based database authentication that allows users to leverage groups from Google Cloud’s identity service to manage and control connectivity and access, as well as permissions, to Cloud SQL [...]