How does this compare to AWS Aurora in terms of pricing and performance? With Aurora the basic instance is $48/month and they recommend at least two in separat

How does this compare to AWS Aurora in terms of pricing and performance? With Aurora the basic instance is $48/month and they recommend at least two in separate zones for availability, so it's about $96/month minimum. Storage is $.10/GB and IO is $.20 per million requests. Data transfer starts at $.09/GB and the first GB is free.[1] Spanner is a minimum of $650/mo (6X the Aurora minimum), storage is $.30/GB (3X), and data transfer starts at $.12/GB (1.3X). Of course with Aurora you have to pick your instance size and bigger faster instances will cost more. Also there's the matter of multi-region replication, although it appears that aspect of Spanner is not priced out yet. So maybe as you scale the gap narrows, but it's interesting to price out the entry point for startups. [1] https://aws.amazon.com/rds/aurora/ https://aws.amazon.com/rds/aurora/