Sorry we didn't make this explicit, but we'll be three zones for GCE in Oregon "soon" (i.e., us-west1-c will be online).
Disclosure: I work on Google Cloud.
Disclosure: I work on Google Cloud.
The dot for Council Bluffs on the map in the article[0] is misplaced by hundreds of miles.
0: https://2.bp.blogspot.com/-mCc_hmccB3k/V-y4E1VHooI/AAAAAAAAD...
However, it is one of our first to include the submarine cables! (So it's got that going for it)
For others reference, the Iowa DC's are two buildings a third of a mile long and at least two stories of data halls, with at least one other smaller footprint that I believe is 4 stories, and plenty of room to grow. The Oklahoma campus is similarly massive.
If you can answer, are most of these new regions in leased DC's? Can you be more specific on locations? (It's going to be hard to find Tokyo just looking at maps.)
https://www.google.com/about/datacenters/inside/locations/in...
as you've surmised some of those are in use by Cloud (today). Even within Cloud though, different services (like GCS vs GCE) use different datacenters. We try to make that a little more transparent here:
https://cloud.google.com/about/locations/
with GCS being the most visible (us-east3!) because it's used by folks to do explicit Disaster Recovery planning ("I want to make sure my two GCS buckets are separated by at least 1000 miles in case of nuclear attack"). But, we don't specify exact buildings or anything like that, usually only city or county.
What specifically were you hoping to know about the location within Tokyo?
For business purposes, I guess it would be interesting to know if the new regions (if they aren't being built from the ground up) would have the same infrastructure quality, environmental quality, connections, etc that you currently have in your own designs.