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Your company has a rapidly growing social media platform and a user base primarily located in North America. Due to increasing demand, your current on-premises PostgreSQL database, hosted in your Unit

The correct answer is C. Use Spanner.. Using Cloud Spanner is the best option for a rapidly growing social media platform that requires automatic scaling, multi-region support, and low latency. Cloud Spanner is a fully managed, horizontally scalable relational database that supports strong consistency and multi-region

Submitted by layla.eg· Mar 30, 2026Planning and configuring a cloud solution

Question

Your company has a rapidly growing social media platform and a user base primarily located in North America. Due to increasing demand, your current on-premises PostgreSQL database, hosted in your United States headquarters data center, no longer meets your needs. You need to identify a cloud-based database solution that offers automatic scaling, multi-region support for future expansion, and maintains low latency. What should you do?

Options

  • AUse Bigtable.
  • BUse BigQuery.
  • CUse Spanner.
  • DUse Cloud SQL for PostgreSQL.

How the community answered

(47 responses)
  • A
    15% (7)
  • B
    6% (3)
  • C
    77% (36)
  • D
    2% (1)

Explanation

Using Cloud Spanner is the best option for a rapidly growing social media platform that requires automatic scaling, multi-region support, and low latency. Cloud Spanner is a fully managed, horizontally scalable relational database that supports strong consistency and multi-region replication, making it ideal for high-demand applications that require scalability and low-latency performance across regions. It also offers PostgreSQL compatibility for easy migration from your existing database.

Topics

#Spanner#multi-region database#automatic scaling#relational database

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