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cloutiertyleryesterday at 5:12 PM1 replyview on HN

Is it really not more expensive? I haven't operated a large scale Spanner cluster, but the numbers would suggest it's quite a bit more expensive. I suppose it's workload dependent is what you're saying?


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roncesvallesyesterday at 7:08 PM

I ran some rough numbers a while ago and I found single-region GCP Spanner to be the most cost-effective relational DB option (out of the ones I looked it) if you don't mind that it can't scale to zero (min $65/mo), if synchronous replication for durability is a must and you need serializability. It's more cost effective than any Aurora offering including DSQL (which isn't serializable afaik but even then).