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Cloud Spanner Spanner

Globally distributed, strongly consistent relational and multi-model database service with unlimited scale.

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Naming timeline

  1. Cloud Spanner

    · Public Beta (GA May 2017)

    Launched externally as Cloud Spanner.

  2. SpannerCurrent name

    · Database Portfolio Prefix Simplification

    Dropped the 'Cloud' prefix across product documentation and feature branding (e.g., Spanner Graph, Spanner Omni).

What is Cloud Spanner called now?

Cloud Spanner is now called Spanner, with the latest change in 2022 (Database Portfolio Prefix Simplification). Globally distributed, strongly consistent relational and multi-model database service with unlimited scale. Only the customer-facing name changed; the underlying technical identifiers remain backward compatible.

Also known as

  • Google Cloud Spanner
  • Spanner Graph
  • Spanner Omni

Technical identifiers

Technical identifiers unchanged. Only the customer-facing product name changed; the APIs, CLI commands, IAM roles and Terraform resources below keep their legacy identifiers for backward compatibility.

REST / gRPC APIsspanner.googleapis.com
gcloud / CLI Commandsgcloud spanner
IAM Predefined Rolesroles/spanner.*
Terraform Resourcesgoogle_spanner_instance google_spanner_database

API endpoint spanner.googleapis.com is still titled Cloud Spanner API in the Cloud Console.

Notes & disambiguation

  • Google Cloud dropped the 'Cloud' prefix from Cloud Spanner across official documentation, console views, and sub-brand launches (such as Spanner Graph and Spanner Omni).
  • The underlying API endpoint spanner.googleapis.com is still titled 'Cloud Spanner API' in the Cloud Console API Library.

Sources & official documentation

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