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Re:Google Cloud Spanner is now half the cost of Amazon DynamoDB by bananapub on Wednesday October 11, 2023 @03:02PM (#37848831)
borg and k8s are completely unrelated bits of software with roughly similar goals.

gcp spanner and normal spanner are different deployments of the same code.

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Re:Google Cloud Spanner is now half the cost of Amazon DynamoDB by marcinzm on Wednesday October 11, 2023 @04:14PM (#37849707)
>different deployments

Which can be the difference between 99.99% availability and 99% availability with data corruption issues. Not saying that's the case here but one should not downplay the difference deployments can make.

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