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This page describes Spanner RPC global and regional endpoints. You can
use a global or regional service endpoint to make requests to
Spanner.
Use aregional endpointto enforce regional
restriction and ensure that your data is stored and processed within the same
region.
The SpannerRPC global endpointisspanner.googleapis.com.
TheRPC regional endpointfollows the formatspanner.<REGION>.rep.googleapis.com. For example, if you want to enforce
data guarantees in the regional instance configuration Dammam (me-central2),
usespanner.me-central2.rep.googleapis.comas your regional endpoints. For
more information, seeGlobal and regional service endpoints.
Onlyme-central2is available as a possible regional endpoint.
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