According to Google, the Cloud Spanner data service is now half as cheap as Amazon’s DynamoDB. In addition, Cloud Spanner also received an upgrade.

In a blog, Google announced that Cloud Spanner now has lower latency, is more efficient and flexible, and has more storage capacity. Additionally, the tech giant claims that the improved version of Cloud Spanner now costs barely half as much as Amazon’s competitor AWS for the similar DynamoDB.

Better numbers

With these improvements, Cloud Spanner offers twice the read throughput per dollar as Amazon’s DynamoDB, according to Google. This with a similar amount of work.

Additionally, AWS’s system would process 126 million requests per second at peak times. In contrast, Google produces three billion searches per second. These are of course the numbers that Google uses.

Update

Cloud Spanner’s improved performance should allow users to expand both computing and storage capabilities:

• Calculate – With half the throughput, you can use Cloud Spanner more cost-effectively
• storage – Each Spanner node can now handle 10TB of data, compared to 4TB previously, but you still pay for what you actually use

The upgrades will be rolled out in the coming months. The customer does not have to do anything and there is no downtime.

Both companies, along with Microsoft, remained firmly at the top of the market leaders for cloud services in the second quarter of this year. Global sales in this particular sector exceeded $545 billion last year.