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GCP opening a third zone in Singapore

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Re: GCP opening a third zone in Singapore

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

Having the third zone means you can now run some pretty important services in Singapore, including Cloud Spanner, Cloud SQL, Cloud Bigtable, and Managed Instance Groups.

Also, connectivity within APAC is generally not great, you really want to avoid those round-trips to Tokyo or the US if you can.

Disclaimer: I work at GCP, but had nothing to do with this particular launch.

Re: GCP opening a third zone in Singapore

#14

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

The public ETA on the Los Angeles region remains "2018": https://cloud.google.com/compute/docs/regions-zones/#announc...

Your local friendly GCP sales rep can share better dates under NDA, and if you're interested in early access, please sign up here: https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSc8eJiKN4tu6CNPyFpA...

Disclaimer: I work at GCP, but am not involved with new regions.

Re: GCP opening a third zone in Singapore

#16
post #9
post #8

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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

I mean the 3 datacenters in Singapore

Ah sorry, on mobile and I misread. Regions for Google are physical different locations. Zones are separate partions of a given region with their own power, networking, etc. I believe.

https://cloud.google.com/compute/docs/regions-zones/

Re: GCP opening a third zone in Singapore

#17
post #9
post #8

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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

I mean the 3 datacenters in Singapore

Three zones doesn't mean three datacenters.

Just means there are separate sets of power, networking etc.

Re: GCP opening a third zone in Singapore

#19
post #18

I am very sad Hong Kong loses out all the datacenter project to Singapore. all due to idiotic government and regulatory. and connection from hk to sg isn't exactly great either.

Fear not, there's a Hong Kong GCP region opening later this year!

https://cloudplatform.googleblog.com/2017/11/coming-in-2018-...

Re: GCP opening a third zone in Singapore

#20
post #18

I am very sad Hong Kong loses out all the datacenter project to Singapore. all due to idiotic government and regulatory. and connection from hk to sg isn't exactly great either.

There is upcoming AWS region in hk: https://aws.amazon.com/blogs/aws/in-the-works-aws-region-in-...
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