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Spanner is great, but I really wish there was a way to use it for less than $600/month. :(

Yep. I also wish that you didn't have to use a special proprietary RPC API for writes...

These are connected because it means that it's tough to prototype on something cheaper and then switch over.

Yeah, it makes Amazon aurora far more attractive

GCP also offers Cloud SQL with similar features to AWS Aurora.

Cloud SQL is more like plain RDS, no?