Google says the dual-region configuration option will help enterprises comply with data residency regulations in countries with limited cloud infrastructure.
Credit: Sundry Photography / Shutterstock
Google Cloud has updated its fully managed distributed SQL database service Spanner with an option to maintain dual-region configuration, which it claims will make it easier for enterprises to comply with data residency norms across countries with more limited cloud support, and at the same time ensure availability.
Before Google Cloud introduced the update, enterprises operating in countries with only two of the company’s cloud regions were restricted to using regional Spanner configurations as multi-region configurations for the database service required three regions, resulting in one region being outside the country and non-compliance from a data residency standpoint, the cloud services provider said.
The dual-region configuration option allows enterprises operating in countries with just two cloud regions of the company to comply with data residency norms as well as maintain high availability, Google said.
This new option, according to …