Q20
Single choice
Your product team is building a critical, customer-facing application on Google Cloud. The development team wants to use Spanner for their database to take advantage of its horizontal scalability and low operational overhead.
However, the FinOps team is concerned about the direct monthly cost of Spanner and proposed using a self-managed PostgreSQL database on Compute Engine VMs instead. You need to resolve this conflict and ensure the project moves forward with an architecturally sound database choice that balances technical requirements with financial constraints.
What should you do?