# Google Cloud Spanner Instances API

**Canonical:** https://apis.io/apis/google-cloud-spanner/google-cloud-spanner-instances-api/  
**Provider:** Google Cloud Spanner — https://apis.io/providers/google-cloud-spanner/  
**Base URL:** https://spanner.googleapis.com/v1  
**Documentation:** https://cloud.google.com/spanner/docs

Google Cloud Spanner Instances API is one of 3 APIs that [Google Cloud Spanner](https://apis.io/providers/google-cloud-spanner/) publishes on the [APIs.io](https://apis.io/) network, described by a machine-readable OpenAPI specification. This API exposes 1 JSON Schema definition. Tagged areas include Instances. The published artifact set on APIs.io includes an OpenAPI specification, API documentation, authentication docs, a getting-started guide, and 1 JSON Schema.

Operations on Spanner instances

## Machine-readable artifacts (5)

- **OpenAPI** — https://raw.githubusercontent.com/api-evangelist/google-cloud-spanner/refs/heads/main/openapi/google-cloud-spanner-instances-api-openapi.yml
- **Documentation** — https://cloud.google.com/spanner/docs/reference/rest
- **Authentication** — https://cloud.google.com/spanner/docs/authentication
- **GettingStarted** — https://cloud.google.com/spanner/docs/getting-started/rest
- **JSONSchema** — https://raw.githubusercontent.com/api-evangelist/google-cloud-spanner/refs/heads/main/json-schema/instance-schema.json

## Other Google Cloud Spanner APIs (2)

- [Google Cloud Spanner Databases API](https://apis.io/apis/google-cloud-spanner/google-cloud-spanner-databases-api/)
- [Google Cloud Spanner Sessions API](https://apis.io/apis/google-cloud-spanner/google-cloud-spanner-sessions-api/)

## Tags

Instances

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Profiled by [API Evangelist](https://apievangelist.com) and published on [APIs.io](https://apis.io/apis/google-cloud-spanner/google-cloud-spanner-instances-api/). The API's provider profile, Kin Score and agent-readiness rating are at https://apis.io/providers/google-cloud-spanner/.