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Re:Google Cloud Spanner is now half the cost of Amazon DynamoDB by dekhn on Wednesday October 11, 2023 @03:38PM (#37849259)
It's almost certainly not the case that Gmail uses Cloud Spanner rather than Internal Spanner. I don't think Cloud Spanner (or most of Google's cloud products) have the featureset required to support loads like Gmail (both in terms of technical capability, and security/privacy features).

When I worked at Google I tried to get more services to migrate to the cloud but the internal environment that was built up over 25 years is much better at supporting billion+ users with private data.

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Re:Google Cloud Spanner is now half the cost of Amazon DynamoDB by Cthulhu_ on Wednesday October 11, 2023 @05:18PM (#37850378)
And yet, if they do, that's probably one of the best sales pitches they could have - dogfooding. After all, isn't that also how AWS started, just reselling the services and servers they already use themselves?

It doesn't make much sense to have a 'better' version of a product you sell but keep it internal.

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Re:Google Cloud Spanner is now half the cost of Amazon DynamoDB by jeffbee on Wednesday October 11, 2023 @05:25PM (#37850439)
It makes sense because the public will not use the internal APIs which have non-standard wire protocols, weird authentication schemes, etc.
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Re:Google Cloud Spanner is now half the cost of Amazon DynamoDB by xdeepak81 on Friday October 13, 2023 @08:39PM (#37877083)
Yet Amazon Retail still don't use DynamoDb for the critical workloads. They still rely on an internal version of DynamoDb (Sable) which is optimized for Retail workload.
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