# GCP Spanner Optimization | Cloud Efficiency Hub

Canonical: https://www.pointfive.co/efficiency-hub/cloud-services/gcp-spanner

1 documented GCP Spanner cost inefficiency, with how to detect it and how to fix it.

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1 documented GCP Spanner cost inefficiency, with how to detect it and how to fix it.

## 1 inefficiency

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- GCP Spanner  CER-0481

### [Overprovisioned Spanner Compute Capacity Without Autoscaling](https://www.pointfive.co/efficiency-hub/inefficiencies/overprovisioned-spanner-compute-capacity-without-autoscaling)

Spanner charges for the compute capacity provisioned on an instance, measured in nodes or processing units, for every hour it exists, regardless of how much of it queries actually use. Instances are commonly sized once for peak traffic, a...

Databases

## More GCP services

- [GCP Compute Engine  14](https://www.pointfive.co/efficiency-hub/cloud-services/gcp-compute-engine)

- [GCP BigQuery  9](https://www.pointfive.co/efficiency-hub/cloud-services/gcp-bigquery)

- [GCP GKE  9](https://www.pointfive.co/efficiency-hub/cloud-services/gcp-gke)

- [GCP Cloud SQL  8](https://www.pointfive.co/efficiency-hub/cloud-services/gcp-cloud-sql)

- [GCP GCS  6](https://www.pointfive.co/efficiency-hub/cloud-services/gcp-gcs)

- [GCP Cloud Logging  5](https://www.pointfive.co/efficiency-hub/cloud-services/gcp-cloud-logging)

- [GCP Vertex AI  5](https://www.pointfive.co/efficiency-hub/cloud-services/gcp-vertex-ai)

- [GCP Dataflow  4](https://www.pointfive.co/efficiency-hub/cloud-services/gcp-dataflow)

- [GCP Cloud Run  3](https://www.pointfive.co/efficiency-hub/cloud-services/gcp-cloud-run)

- [GCP Cloud Memorystore  2](https://www.pointfive.co/efficiency-hub/cloud-services/gcp-cloud-memorystore)

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