Case Study: Blockchain.com achieves 30% database cost savings with Google Cloud Platform

Blockchain.com Streamlining infrastructure for the world's most dynamic financial market

Blockchain.com, a fast-growing cryptocurrency software company supporting millions of users worldwide, faced major operational and scaling challenges as its blockchain databases became increasingly complex and costly to maintain. With support from Google Cloud Platform and services like Cloud Spanner, Cloud SQL, Compute Engine, and Cloud Identity-Aware Proxy, Blockchain.com needed a more secure, reliable way to manage large volumes of financial data while reducing infrastructure overhead.

Google Cloud Platform helped Blockchain.com replace a third of its infrastructure with Cloud Spanner, simplifying database management and enabling on-demand scaling with strong consistency and high availability. The results included a 30% reduction in comparable database costs, restoration of a full database in nine hours instead of one week, and saving two days per month in SRE management, freeing engineers to focus on product work rather than maintenance.

Blockchain.com

Lewis Tuff

Head of Platform Engineering