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Alibaba Cloud is the cloud computing arm of Alibaba Group, #1 in the Asia Pacific market and #3 globally, offering elastic compute, cloud databases, AI platform, big data analytics, and security compliance, operating 89 availability zones across 30 regions worldwide.
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1 results shownGoogle Cloud Spanner adds single-region instances, lowering distributed database entry cost
Google Cloud Spanner introduces single-region instance configuration, reducing costs by ~60% compared to multi-region setups.