4.2. Managing Storage and Data Solutions

💡 First Principle: Once data products are deployed, ongoing management is about controlling who can touch the data, ensuring it doesn't silently accumulate cost or risk over time, and being able to recover it when something goes wrong — three distinct operational responsibilities that don't happen automatically just because the data product itself is "managed."

⚠️ Common Misconception: Restoring a Cloud SQL backup always overwrites the original instance in place. In reality, a restore operation targets an instance you explicitly choose — often a new instance — so understanding restore targets matters for avoiding accidental data loss in exam scenarios.