Let's look at actually creating a Cloud Spanner instance. We will also create a database, that is, a table, and run a query on it:
- Browse to STORAGE | Spanner, as shown in the following screenshot:
- Choose to create an instance, and then enter an instance name. The ID will be auto-populated based on our name, but this can be modified if needed. We can also select our regional configuration and the number of nodes. Remember that the recommended number for production is 3:
- Once our instance has been created, ...