In this advanced lab, you will simulate the database needs of a growing enterprise that requires high availability, scalability, and disaster recovery. You'll deploy and manage a Cloud SQL instance for transactional operations and integrate it with Cloud Spanner for global consistency and high throughput analytics. You will address access management, performance optimization, and cost efficiency while ensuring data safety through comprehensive backup and recovery strategies.
A multinational e-commerce company anticipates a 200% increase in customer interactions and needs to ensure seamless database performance. Current operations require 99.99% uptime and capacity to handle a thousand transactions per second across multiple geographies. Implementing a Cloud SQL database for real-time transactions and leveraging Cloud Spanner for analytics gives the company the scalability and reliability it seeks.
