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Google Cloud Platform expands to Australia with new Sydney region
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#22Can you guys please add this to the default VPC for people? For whatever reason every other region is there already but not this. I can't create GCE instances because it's missing the subnet and you can't add a subnet to the default VPC. $ gcloud compute networks describe default autoCreateSubnetworks: true creationTimestamp: '2017-06-11T21:02:YY.XXX-07:00' description: Default network for the project id: 'XXX' kind:…
GCP support here. We're aware of some users hitting this, it's an artifact of how the new regions are published to existing projects. This should be resolved for all users by the end of the day (Sydney time).
In the meantime, try these workarounds:
* Create a new project, it should work off the bat
* Create a manual network and explicitly add the subnetworks you want
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#23Any ETA on the new India region? Eagerly waiting to provision clusters to keep the latency low for our customers.
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#26Earlier quoted context omitted.
Nobody at Google will provide future release dates that aren't yet published. Launch dates can slip.
This is incorrect. We happily share a transparent and very open view into 3+ quarters ahead with customers and partners under NDA! We just publish for broader public when its open for the broader public. (Source: me, the GCP roadmap Program Manager. Who also appreciates how consistently our NDA is upheld internally and externally.)
what is the point of an NDA around launch dates?
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#27Earlier quoted context omitted.
Why would that be surprising?
AWS in contrast likes to spread things out more, like in Northern Virginia where they have 5 different AZs that are supplied from different electrical substations and confer some 'more than one block down the street' geographic separation. While a bunch of them are in the usual Ashburn-Sterling-Dulles triangle on north of Dulles Airport, there's also ones in Chantilly on the south side of the airport, and past Manass…
I don't know where AWS is in Sydney, but I'd be surprised if they had a lot of options for doing better than this small stretch of Equinix area.
Aside from Equinix, the are the two Global Switch buildings literally next to each other, and there's NextDC.
Re: Google Cloud Platform expands to Australia with new Sydney region
#28Earlier quoted context omitted.
AWS in contrast likes to spread things out more, like in Northern Virginia where they have 5 different AZs that are supplied from different electrical substations and confer some 'more than one block down the street' geographic separation. While a bunch of them are in the usual Ashburn-Sterling-Dulles triangle on north of Dulles Airport, there's also ones in Chantilly on the south side of the airport, and past Manass…
I don't know where AWS is in Sydney, but I'd be surprised if they had a lot of options for doing better than this small stretch of Equinix area. Aside from Equinix, the are the two Global Switch buildings literally next to each other, and there's NextDC.
In Sydney, Digital Reality opened a site in 2012 out in the western suburb of Erskine Park, almost 40 km from the CBD, but within 3 km of the Transgid Sydney West 330/132kV Substation, one of the key pieces of power supply infrastructure in the Sydney Metro. That facility has 4 separate bays where a tenant can operate a full data center [1].
NextDC is in Macquarie Park, ~10 km from the CBD, and is adjacent to one from Fujitsu and one from Macquarie Telecom.
Siting in these three areas, for example, would confer a decent amount of geographic separation.
[1] https://www.digitalrealty.com/data-centers/sydney/#goto-1718