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GCP arrives in India with launch of Mumbai region

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Re: GCP arrives in India with launch of Mumbai region

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Post by dgemm »

rb808 wrote: post #12
amitutk wrote: post #2

The biggest tech hub in India is in Bangalore, but both AWS and GCP chose Mumbai. Because of proximity to international data cables?

The datacenters should be where the users are, not where the developers are.

By locating them at major internet exchange points they are doing exactly that, being closer to more users.

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Post by jpatokal »

vivekf wrote: post #19
anubhavmishra wrote: post #18

This is amazing! I am really excited to see this happen from the big three. Amazon, Google and Azure.

I wish they did billing from an Indian entity with GST as well instead of hitting us with massive exchange rate issues

That's part of the announcement, under "Pay in local currency": GCP now supports billing in INR.

(Disclaimer: I work in GCP.)

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Post by matt_wulfeck »

augustz wrote: post #11
AndrewMock wrote: post #9

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Datacenter staffing in the cloud is fairly easy; only about 6 or so are needed on-prem for HVAC and hands-on. The rest are remote. Many cloud datacenters are able to be located in extremely obscure locations because of this.

GCP and AWS do not use 6 people per region. With AWS a region has more than one availability zone. aws ec2 describe-availability-zones --region ap-south-1 for example shows two datacenters in mumbai. Across physical site security, to power to network to just hard drive and system decommissioning, more than 6 staff. I wonder if this is partly why AWS has done so well. I've used colo and hosted providers who do seem to…

Maybe double that number, or triple it. The point stands that you don’t need a large pool of local talent to operate a data center.

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Post by lmnop7 »

JumpCrisscross wrote: post #20
Abishek_Muthian wrote: post #16

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Also power, yes Tamilnadu does lead the country with power generation but Maharashtra comes close second with better power distribution backed by top private sectors in the industry.

Source?

Enron -- Dabhol Power Company

Re: GCP arrives in India with launch of Mumbai region

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Post by sudhirj »

rb808 wrote: post #12
amitutk wrote: post #2

The biggest tech hub in India is in Bangalore, but both AWS and GCP chose Mumbai. Because of proximity to international data cables?

The datacenters should be where the users are, not where the developers are.

The users are in every building all over the country and the world - which makes the datacenters best positioned at the junctions and interchanges of global wiring.

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Post by alpb »

nodesocket wrote: post #25

$GOOG employees: any eta on the California region?

Why do you need a California region? There’s already a west coast datacenter in Oregon. I’m guessing the latency differences would be likely negligible. That said there's plans for a Los Angeles region here: https://cloud.google.com/about/locations/

(Disclaimer: I am a Google employee, but totally not working on datacenter stuff.)

Re: GCP arrives in India with launch of Mumbai region

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Post by sudhirj »

tyingq wrote: post #10
dheera wrote: post #6

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Vendor lock-in? That's a problem with Google much more so than Amazon.

Depends on what specific services you use. If you have a notable amount of data, they all have pretty hard lock in.

For any multi instance or multi datacenter managed distributed service, lock in is to be expected - the companies build and provide the service tightly coupled with their infrastructure and tech, so the effectively the companies are the service. The lock in follows from there. See DynamoDB, Bigtable, Spanner, SQS, S3 etc.

Re: GCP arrives in India with launch of Mumbai region

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Post by sudhirj »

amitutk wrote: post #2

The biggest tech hub in India is in Bangalore, but both AWS and GCP chose Mumbai. Because of proximity to international data cables?

Mumbai and Chennai are coastal cities with cable landings, but Mumbai is the finance and media capital - it has the stock exchange and Bollywood, both of whom I imagine will be big customers. And a bigger population as well.
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