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Your startup has a web application that currently serves customers out of a single region in Asia. You are targeting funding that will allow your startup to serve customers globally. Your current…

The correct answer is A. Use Cloud Spanner to configure a single region instance initially, and then configure multi-region Cloud Spanner instances after securing funding. Explanation/Reference: When you create a Cloud Spanner instance, you must configure it as either regional (that is, all the resources are contained within a single Google Cloud region) or multi-region (that is, the resources span more than one region). You can change the…

Submitted by yasin.bd· Mar 30, 2026Designing data processing systems

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Your startup has a web application that currently serves customers out of a single region in Asia. You are targeting funding that will allow your startup to serve customers globally. Your current goal is to optimize for cost, and your post-funding goal is to optimize for global presence and performance. You must use a native JDBC driver. What should you do?

Options

  • AUse Cloud Spanner to configure a single region instance initially, and then configure multi-region Cloud Spanner instances after securing funding.
  • BUse a Cloud SQL for PostgreSQL highly available instance first, and Bigtable with US, Europe, and Asia replication after securing funding.
  • CUse a Cloud SQL for PostgreSQL zonal instance first, and Bigtable with US, Europe, and Asia after securing funding.
  • DUse a Cloud SQL for PostgreSQL zonal instance first, and Cloud SQL for PostgreSQL with highly available configuration after securing funding.

How the community answered

(58 responses)
  • A
    50% (29)
  • B
    16% (9)
  • C
    28% (16)
  • D
    7% (4)

Explanation

Explanation/Reference: When you create a Cloud Spanner instance, you must configure it as either regional (that is, all the resources are contained within a single Google Cloud region) or multi-region (that is, the resources span more than one region). You can change the instance configuration to multi-regional (or global) at anytime.

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#Cloud Spanner#Cloud SQL#JDBC#multi-region database

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