Quick follow-up. They are now offering Spanner at < $700/month (which was old pricing I think for 1 node). Ie, you can do something like processing units in increments of 100, so maybe $70/month.

Kind of weird, google paying attention to what users want!

What's next, google home / assistant will support google work calendars? Alexa has supported google work calendars forever, but google's own devices did not - despite plenty of requests.

I always wrote google off as so disconnected from users / developers wasn't worth dealing with them, but this is interesting to see some changes that look user / developer directed (vs just wowing with google fu features with modest uptake).