Our Google Cloud MySQL database had a huge and unexpected increase of used space in the span of a couple of days. It went from 15 GB to 16TB! This is also obviously causing issues with our billing as the cost for the SQL storage drastically increased.

I am trying to setup a database and enter in a few entries. I am following the documentation provided by google, “Connect to Cloud SQL for MySQL from Cloud Shell” (https://cloud.google.com/sql/docs/mysql/connect-instance-cloud-shell) – I’m getting to the step “gcloud sql connect myinstance –user=root” and I never had a password set, so I set a password with passwd and I put in the password I set after running the command again and I get “ERROR 1045 (28000): Access denied for user ‘root’@’googlecloudIPADDRESS’ (using password: YES)”