A SaaS provider runs a transactional application on a single-region Cloud Spanner instance in us-central1. Rapid growth in EMEA and APAC now requires the database to survive a regional outage and continue to accept strongly consistent writes with no manual failover. Availability must increase from four nines (99.99 %) to five nines (99.999 %) while keeping day-to-day operations simple. What should you do?
Export the data to BigQuery and place it in a multi-region US dataset to handle global traffic.
Create a new Cloud Spanner instance that uses the nam-eur-asia1 multi-region configuration and migrate the database to it.
Change the instance to use a dual-region configuration with us-central1 as the write region and us-east1 as the witness region.
Add cross-region read-only replicas in europe-west1 and asia-southeast1 to the existing single-region instance.
Only a multi-region Cloud Spanner instance synchronously replicates every write across a majority of regions and automatically elects a new leader if one region fails. The nam-eur-asia1 (global) configuration spans North America, Europe, and Asia Pacific, giving 99.999 % availability and allowing strongly consistent reads and writes worldwide without manual intervention. Read-only replicas improve read latency but do not protect write availability, and moving the leader to another region or using a dual-region configuration still leaves a single write quorum in one geographic area. Migrating to another product would require a re-architecture and might not meet the same consistency and availability guarantees.
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