In a multi-region Cloud Spanner deployment, what trade-off must you consider?

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In a multi-region Cloud Spanner deployment, what trade-off must you consider?

Key points

  • Multi-region Spanner prioritizes consistency over latency
  • Quorum achievement is key to Spanner's consistency
  • Higher availability comes at the cost of increased write latency
  • Regional outages do not entirely compromise write availability

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