That may have been true at one point, but now you can use Spanner closer to $60-70 a month factoring in storage (and even cheaper with committed use discounts)

That may have been true at one point, but now you can use Spanner closer to $60-70 a month factoring in storage (and even cheaper with committed use discounts) after upgrading from the free trial instance. https://cloud.google.com/blog/products/databases/use-spanner-at-low-cost-with-granular-instance-sizing https://cloud.google.com/blog/products/databases/use-spanner...