InfoQ - SSD - News https://www.infoq.com InfoQ SSD News feed Google Cloud Introduces HDD Tier for Spanner Database, Cutting Cold Storage Costs by 80% https://www.infoq.com/news/2025/03/google-spanner-tiered-storage/?utm_campaign=infoq_content&utm_source=infoq&utm_medium=feed&utm_term=SSD-news <img src="https://res.infoq.com/news/2025/03/google-spanner-tiered-storage/en/headerimage/generatedHeaderImage-1741896958938.jpg"/><p>Google has recently introduced tiered storage for Spanner, its distributed SQL database on Google Cloud. This tiered storage is based on a new HDD storage option that is 80% cheaper than the existing SSD option, allowing for cost optimization of older data while minimizing the overhead associated with traditional data migration.</p> <i>By Renato Losio</i> SSD HDD SQL Distributed Data Google Cloud Cost Optimization Cloud AI, ML & Data Engineering Architecture & Design news Sat, 22 Mar 2025 02:12:00 GMT https://www.infoq.com/news/2025/03/google-spanner-tiered-storage/?utm_campaign=infoq_content&utm_source=infoq&utm_medium=feed&utm_term=SSD-news Renato Losio 2025-03-22T02:12:00Z /news/2025/03/google-spanner-tiered-storage/en