What happens when a database fails during peak business hours and transactions stop? This course teaches you to prevent costly downtime and recover rapidly from unexpected infrastructure failures on Google Cloud. You will explore the shared responsibility model to identify what Google manages and what operational tasks require your ownership. Through realistic scenarios, you will schedule maintenance windows to protect active user sessions, configure multi-zone high availability for instant failover, and restore data to a precise second using automated backups. You will evaluate these practices across Cloud SQL, AlloyDB for PostgreSQL, Spanner, Bigtable, Firestore, and Memorystore for Valkey.