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		lern_too_spel on May 11, 2017 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Azure Cosmos DB, a globally distributed database Why do you need failover if you have global multimaster like Spanner?

aliuy on May 11, 2017 [–]

An interesting thing to point out is the current beta for Cloud Spanner does not have multi-region deployments... and instead, allows you to do single-region deployment in your choice of 3 (not >30) regions:

https://cloud.google.com/spanner/docs/instance-configuration

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