Connect to Spanner from other Google Cloud services

This page describes some of the other Google Cloud products that are integrated with Spanner.

Product	Links
App Engine flexible environment	Use Spanner client libraries in the App Engine flexible environment.
App Engine standard environment, second generation runtime	Use Spanner client libraries in second generation runtimes.
App Engine standard environment, first generation runtime	Use the REST API in first generation runtimes.
Cloud Run	Use Spanner client libraries from Cloud Run.
Cloud Run functions	Use Spanner client libraries from Cloud Run functions. See Using Spanner with Cloud Run functions.
Dataflow	See Import, export, and modify data using Dataflow, Export databases from Spanner to Avro, Import databases from Spanner to Avro and Import and export data in CSV format.
Cloud Storage	Move Spanner databases to and from Avro or CSV files stored in Cloud Storage. See Export databases from Spanner to Avro, Import databases from Spanner to Avro and Import and export data in CSV format.
Compute Engine	Use Spanner client libraries from within a Compute Engine instance. See Using Spanner in a virtual machine instance.
GKE	Use Spanner client libraries with GKE. See Connect Spanner with a Google Kubernetes Engine (GKE) cluster.
Gemini Enterprise Agent Platform	Use Spanner Agent Platform integration.
Looker	See [Connect Spanner to

Looker]spanner_looker for an overview of how Looker relates to Spanner, or see Looker's Spanner page for configuration instructions required within Looker.

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Last updated 2026-06-18 UTC.