Cloud SQL for SQL server read pools are now generally available and provide
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Cloud SQL for SQL server read pools are now generally available and provide operational simplicity and scaling for your read workloads.
Read pools provide a single endpoint in front of up to seven read pool nodes and automatically load balance traffic.
You can scale your read pool in several ways:
* **Scale in or out**: scale load balancing capacity horizontally by modifying the number of read pool nodes in the read pool. Each read pool supports between 1 and 7 read pool nodes.
* **Scale up or down**: scale load balancing capacity vertically by modifying the machine type associated with a read pool node. Once defined, configuration is uniformly applied across each read pool node in the read pool.
For more information, see [About read pools](https://docs.cloud.google.com/sql/docs/sqlserver/about-read-pools).