Ch 6 · Storage & Databases
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Disabling a CMEK key isn't a soft lock — it's permanent, by design.

Database Center gives one aggregated fleet-wide view.

A routine 90-day key rotation disabled an old version, and a secondary AlloyDB replica referencing that specific version (not an alias) went offline within minutes. Every rotation runbook must enumerate every resource referencing a key, replicas included.

CMEK

You control the Cloud KMS key — revoke it, revoke access, independent of any IAM change

Database Center

AI-assisted, one view across Cloud SQL, Spanner, Bigtable, AlloyDB