Google Cloud Associate Cloud Engineer — Question 294

Your company has a rapidly growing social media platform and a user base primarily located in North America. Due to increasing demand, your current on-premises PostgreSQL database, hosted in your United States headquarters data center, no longer meets your needs. You need to identify a cloud-based database solution that offers automatic scaling, multi-region support for future expansion, and maintains low latency. What should you do?

Answer options

• A. Use BigQuery.
• B. Use Spanner.
• C. Use Cloud SQL for PostgreSQL.
• D. Use Bigtable.

Correct answer: B

Explanation

Spanner is the correct answer because it is designed for global scalability and offers multi-region support while ensuring low latency, making it ideal for a rapidly growing platform. BigQuery is primarily a data analytics service, while Cloud SQL for PostgreSQL and Bigtable do not provide the same level of built-in global distribution and automatic scaling as Spanner.