Google PCA Practice Question: Managing Implementation and Ensuring Solution and Operations Reliability
An e-commerce platform uses Cloud Spanner in a multi-region configuration. They want to achieve the highest possible availability SLA. Which deployment configuration should they choose?
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Cloud Spanner offers a 99.999% SLA for multi-region configurations. To achieve this, you must use a multi-region instance (e.g., nam3, eur3) that replicates data across at least three regions. A single-region configuration only offers 99.99% SLA.
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Google Cloud's globally distributed, strongly consistent, and horizontally scalable database service designed for mission-critical, transactional workloads.
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Cloud Spanner is a fully managed, globally distributed relational database service from Google Cloud that combines the benefits of relational database structure with horizontal scalability and strong consistency.
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