Introducing Spanner dual-region configurations that help maintain high availability and data residency
Spanner is Google’s fully managed, globally distributed database with high throughput and virtually unlimited scale. Spanner processes over 4 billion queries per second at peak. With features such as automatic sharding, zero downtime, and strong consistency, Spanner powers demanding, global workloads — not only across customers in financial services, gaming, retail, and other industries but also Google internally — that are both relational and non-relational. Previously, to maintain data residency in countries with only two Google Cloud regions, you were restricted to regional Spanner configurations with 99.99% availability. That’s because Spanner multi-region configurations require three regions, one of which would [...]