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Building Google Cloud Platform Solutions
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Building Google Cloud Platform Solutions

by Ted Hunter, Steven Porter, Legorie Rajan PS
March 2019
Beginner to intermediate
778 pages
34h 20m
English
Packt Publishing
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Creating a Cloud Spanner instance

Let's go ahead and create a new Cloud Spanner instance. As with most GCP products and services, Cloud Spanner instances, nodes, and databases can be controlled from the Google Cloud Console, or using gcloud.

Before getting started, it's important to note that, as with Bigtable, Cloud Spanner is one of the more expensive products in the GCP catalog. Unlike Bigtable, Cloud Spanner does not offer a development instance with a lower cost. Instead, developers may choose to create a single-node instance for development purposes, though Google strongly recommends at least three nodes be used for a production system.

When creating a Cloud SQL instance, keep in mind that the instance configuration cannot be changed, ...

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