Google Cloud Spanner Boosts Performance, No Extra Cost

Alphabet Inc GOOG GOOGL Google Cloud Spanner announced a significant enhancement in its price-performance metrics. 

The update offers a 50% surge in throughput and 2.5 times more storage capacity per node without any price hike. 

These improvements make Spanner's offerings twice as cost-effective as Amazon.Com Inc AMZN DynamoDB for many tasks per the company. Customers will automatically receive these benefits in the upcoming months without any disruptions or additional actions required.

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Spanner's recent enhancements are part of a consistent effort to boost performance, reduce costs, and deliver better value. 

It promises consistent low-latency operations across multiple zones within a region. Its advantages, including familiar SQL usage, no maintenance interruptions, and high availability, make it a top choice for diverse data needs. Notably, Spanner's read throughput per dollar is now double that of Amazon DynamoDB for similar tasks.

Internally, Google relies heavily on Spanner for services like Ads, Gmail, and Photos. While Amazon DynamoDB boasts of handling 126 million queries per second during peak times, Spanner impressively processes 3 billion queries per second, a staggering 20 times more. Furthermore, it manages over 12 exabytes of data.

The latest improvements in Cloud Spanner enable customers to optimize computing and storage aspects more cost-effectively. 

The storage capacity per Spanner node has now increased to 10TB from the previous 4TB, yet users only pay for the storage they utilize. This update provides Spanner users with greater flexibility in tailoring their environments.

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