Spanner now offers editions, a tier-based pricing model that provides greater flexibility, better cost transparency, and opportunities for cost savings

## Feature Spanner now offers editions, a tier-based pricing model that provides greater flexibility, better cost transparency, and opportunities for cost savings. You can choose between the **Standard**, **Enterprise**, and **Enterprise Plus** editions, letting you pick the right set of capabilities to fit your needs and budget. To learn more, read the [Spanner editions overview](https://cloud.google.com/spanner/docs/editions-overview) and [blog](https://cloud.google.com/blog/products/databases/announcing-spanner-editions). ## Feature Spanner is now enabled for use with Cloud KMS Autokey. Using keys generated by Autokey can help you consistently align with industry standards and recommended practices for data security, including the HSM protection level, separation of duties, key rotation, location, and key specificity. Keys requested using Autokey function identically to other Cloud HSM keys with the same settings. For more information, see [Customer-managed encryption keys (CMEK) overview](https://cloud.google.com/spanner/docs/cmek). To learn more about Cloud KMS Autokey, see the[Autokey overview](https://cloud.google.com/kms/docs/autokey-overview).