Yes, the pricing for Spanner is fair for what it offers in production (and test). But I really think there should be a cheaper way to use it for dev purposes (a

Yes, the pricing for Spanner is fair for what it offers in production (and test). But I really think there should be a cheaper way to use it for dev purposes (and for trying it out). Either running an emulator locally, or on a micro instance equivalent in the cloud.