GCP AlloyDB Overview AlloyDB is Google Cloud's managed PostgreSQL-compatible database. It separates compute and storage so they scale independently, runs an analytics-grade columnar engine alongside the transactional rows, and ships with AlloyDB AI — vector search, hybrid search, and model-endpoint management for building RAG and semantic-search apps directly against the database. Instructions Core Concepts - Cluster — the top-level resource that owns storage, backups, and configuration shared across instances - Primary instance — the read/write instance; one per cluster - Read pool instance…