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GCP Cloud SQL Instance Has Public IP Enabled

The database is reachable from the internet, exposing it to scanning and credential attacks a private address would never see.

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Google Cloudprovider
Criticalseverity
Compliancewhere it shows up
Manualfix, steps written out

Google Cloud

Found, explained, handed over.

Where the estate departs from your policies, frameworks and tagging rules.

01

Detect

ZopNight checks this automatically across Google Cloud, with read-only access to the account.

02

Explain

Every finding says exactly what to change: Remove the public IP from the Cloud SQL instance.

03

Fix

The finding opens with the fix already written out, step by step, so it is one ticket, not an investigation.

Applies to
Cloud SQL on Google Cloud
The fix, by hand
  1. Open Cloud Console → SQL → the resource → Connections.
  2. Under Networking, enable Private IP: pick the VPC and configure a private services access range (Service Networking) if not already set up.
  3. Wait for the private IP to provision (a few minutes); note the new IP.
  4. Migrate every consumer (apps, scheduled jobs, dashboards) to the private IP via VPC peering or Cloud SQL Auth Proxy.
  5. For local development use the Cloud SQL Auth Proxy (cloud-sql-proxy) instead of authorized networks.
  6. Once all consumers are off the public IP, disable it: gcloud sql instances patch ‹name› --no-assign-ip.

These are the steps the finding carries in the product.

Category
Compliance. Configuration drift from best practice: public access, missing MFA, unencrypted storage, deprecated runtimes.
Where it appears
The Compliance tab of Recommendations, with every affected resource listed.
Rule ID
RC-136
Full reference

GCP Cloud SQL Instance Has Public IP Enabled

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