Run production workloads for as low as $40/month 😀
Cloud Spanner is a relational database service that offers industry leading 99.999% availability, and near unlimited scale to handle even the most demanding of workloads.
With granular instance sizing, at a much lower cost you can still get all of the Spanner benefits like transparent replication across zones and regions, high-availability, resilience to different types of failures, and the ability to scale up and down as needed without any downtime. And with Committed Use Discounts, the entry price for production workload further reduces to less than $40/month as you receive a 40% discount for a 3-year commitment.
Read further https://cloud.google.com/blog/products/databases/use-spanner-at-low-cost-with-granular-instance-sizing