Google Cloud Platform expands to Australia with new Sydney region

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Post by mikecb » Tue, Jun 20, 2017, 11:24 PM UTC

Google Cloud Platform expands to Australia with new Sydney region
cloudplatform.googleblog.com

Re: Google Cloud Platform expands to Australia with new Sydney region

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Post by nealmueller » Wed, Jun 21, 2017, 12:05 AM UTC

More detail on the region: https://cloud.google.com/about/locations/sydney

Re: Google Cloud Platform expands to Australia with new Sydney region

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Post by nodesocket » Wed, Jun 21, 2017, 1:12 AM UTC

Awesome. Any GCP folks here have an ETA on the new California region? Can't wait until we can provision clusters across two regions (California Oregon) while keeping the speed of light latency low.

Re: Google Cloud Platform expands to Australia with new Sydney region

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Post by jnordwick » Wed, Jun 21, 2017, 1:25 AM UTC

Too many googleblog posts recently. Seriously.

Re: Google Cloud Platform expands to Australia with new Sydney region

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Post by mixmastamyk » Wed, Jun 21, 2017, 1:34 AM UTC

nodesocket wrote: post #3

Awesome. Any GCP folks here have an ETA on the new California region? Can't wait until we can provision clusters across two regions (California Oregon) while keeping the speed of light latency low.

Or the São Paulo region?

Re: Google Cloud Platform expands to Australia with new Sydney region

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Post by mkj » Wed, Jun 21, 2017, 1:45 AM UTC

Anyone able to say (or guess!) where the datacentres are?

Re: Google Cloud Platform expands to Australia with new Sydney region

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Post by shric » Wed, Jun 21, 2017, 1:46 AM UTC

nodesocket wrote: post #3

Awesome. Any GCP folks here have an ETA on the new California region? Can't wait until we can provision clusters across two regions (California Oregon) while keeping the speed of light latency low.

Nobody at Google will provide future release dates that aren't yet published. Launch dates can slip.

Re: Google Cloud Platform expands to Australia with new Sydney region

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Post by mikecb » Wed, Jun 21, 2017, 1:54 AM UTC

mkj wrote: post #6

Anyone able to say (or guess!) where the datacentres are?

Circumstantial evidence points to a strong Equinix partnership.

Re: Google Cloud Platform expands to Australia with new Sydney region

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Post by uji » Wed, Jun 21, 2017, 1:55 AM UTC

jnordwick wrote: post #4

Too many googleblog posts recently. Seriously.

Good or bad thing?

Re: Google Cloud Platform expands to Australia with new Sydney region

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Post by mkj » Wed, Jun 21, 2017, 2:29 AM UTC

mikecb wrote: post #8

mkj wrote: post #6

Anyone able to say (or guess!) where the datacentres are?

Circumstantial evidence points to a strong Equinix partnership.

Huh, so the "3 availability zones" are 3 datacentres on a 1km stretch of road? https://goo.gl/maps/CSpsvPWsxNE2