GCP opening a third zone in Singapore

#1

Post by nealmueller » Tue, May 15, 2018, 12:53 AM UTC

GCP opening a third zone in Singapore
cloudplatform.googleblog.com

Re: GCP opening a third zone in Singapore

#2

Post by tozeur » Tue, May 15, 2018, 2:57 AM UTC

Not on the topic of the article, but why would this post get over 30 votes in two hours? Is this news that exciting?

Re: GCP opening a third zone in Singapore

#3

Post by ethbro » Tue, May 15, 2018, 2:59 AM UTC

tozeur wrote: post #2

Not on the topic of the article, but why would this post get over 30 votes in two hours? Is this news that exciting?

It's 11am there now. Why would it not?

Re: GCP opening a third zone in Singapore

#4

Post by zitterbewegung » Tue, May 15, 2018, 3:12 AM UTC

tozeur wrote: post #2

Not on the topic of the article, but why would this post get over 30 votes in two hours? Is this news that exciting?

If you are in Asia that’s probably why? It’s very useful having AWS in an Ohio since it reduces the latency a bunch (I am based in Chicago ). Also if you need to have low ping times for global deployments .

Re: GCP opening a third zone in Singapore

#5

Post by mixmastamyk » Tue, May 15, 2018, 3:14 AM UTC

What’s the status on Los Angeles? Been waiting a long time for that one. Anyone know where it’s located?

Re: GCP opening a third zone in Singapore

#6

Post by mkj » Tue, May 15, 2018, 3:20 AM UTC

Anyone got a map of where the 3 locations are?

Re: GCP opening a third zone in Singapore

#7

Post by nopinsight » Tue, May 15, 2018, 3:27 AM UTC

tozeur wrote: post #2

Not on the topic of the article, but why would this post get over 30 votes in two hours? Is this news that exciting?

I was much more surprised by the sourdough article with over 600 points and iirc stayed at the top spot for many hours.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16946178

How was that intellectually stimulating or worthy of discussion among IT people or ‘hacker’ in general, seriously? Can’t interested people do a 30-second Google search instead?

Re: GCP opening a third zone in Singapore

#8

Post by regnerba » Tue, May 15, 2018, 3:28 AM UTC

mkj wrote: post #6

Anyone got a map of where the 3 locations are?

Google themselves have a nice one: https://cloud.google.com/about/locations/

Re: GCP opening a third zone in Singapore

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Post by mkj » Tue, May 15, 2018, 3:52 AM UTC

regnerba wrote: post #8

mkj wrote: post #6

Anyone got a map of where the 3 locations are?

Google themselves have a nice one: https://cloud.google.com/about/locations/

I mean the 3 datacenters in Singapore

Re: GCP opening a third zone in Singapore

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Post by benatkin » Tue, May 15, 2018, 4:23 AM UTC

tozeur wrote: post #2

Not on the topic of the article, but why would this post get over 30 votes in two hours? Is this news that exciting?

It's interesting to me because of Southeast Asia and Google. On the Southeast Asia angle there's a burgeoning startup scene with companies like Grab, quick economic change, expat hotspots like Chiang Mai, and the choice of Singapore for servers even though it's a tiny and dense country. For Google there's catching up to AWS, machine learning, and Google's cloud lock in with things like Firebase. I voted it up because I hope to hear opinions about some or all of these things.