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New Singapore Google Cloud Platform region

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"The Singapore region is now open as asia-southeast1. [...] the total number of paid GCP customers in Singapore has increased by 100% over the last 12 months."

Was it already privately available before now?

EDIT: Probably "in Singapore" means that the customer is in singapore, not the service

You can request early access to any of GCP's upcoming regions: https://cloud.google.com/about/locations/ --> https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSc8eJiKN4tu6CNPyFpA...

(Disclaimer: I work for GCP.)

It's been publicly available for a while (a month maybe?), but was launched quietly until now.

True. I've used compute engine in Southeast region for weeks, didn't know it's official just now.

> "The Singapore region is now open as asia-southeast1. [...] the total number of paid GCP customers in Singapore has increased by 100% over the last 12 months."

I willing to bet that a significant number of these are Indian customers. Singapore AWS, Softlayer, Azure were the closest datacenters to India for a long time. Now Azure and AWS have india datacenter ... and google has been promising one for a long time.

Indian startups (like mine) which have a buy-in to the Google ecosystem have to operate from the closest point - Singapore. I wish you guys launch the Mumbai datacenter soon enough.

Any specialized reason for Mumbai data center? Latency?

for an Indian startup ? yes - latency is one. regulatory is another. If you are touching PII or financial data (like us), having the DB in India is critical.

I'm vaguely under the impression that AWS, Azure and Digital Ocean (and probably many more, don't own a facility in Singapore but, essentially, collocate (though maybe some would prefer the word partner?) which Equinix.

Does anyone know if that's true and, more importantly, if it's also true for this new GCP region?

Google has had a dedicated data center in Singapore since Dec 2013.

https://www.google.com.au/about/datacenters/inside/locations...

AWS is in Equinix in Sydney. Not sure about Singapore though.

I am quite surprised about this given space requirements. When I visited Equinix HKG1 it was on the 14th floor of a shared office building and space seemed very limited, most customers seemed to use it just as a network POP judging what you can see through rack doors. Rented floor, 4GS security guys, pen and paper sign in. Perhaps in other locations they own the building and have large spaces to accomodate large clouds.

Equinix runs some gigantic data centers and high value ones as well. The Chicago/Cermak data center hosted essentially all oil futures trading in the states until the CME got into the hosting business.

Last I looked they were approaching 200 data centers. There is going to be a bit of variance amongst that many.

Equinix was originally what is best described as the Switzerland of network interconnection. They were simply a meeting point for various isps to get cross connects in a neutral facility. As such, floor space in what I would call the legacy equinix is at quite a premium. In the last few years however, they have branched out. They've made several acquisitions to provide more traditional DC facilities for general purpose compute and storage. Not just network interconnects.

Fun fact: for the large run on Sunday [1], Andrew Sutherland included these zones in his cluster, so I ended up entirely removing the legend ;).

Disclosure: I work on Google Cloud.

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14548017

Hi, hoping to get someone from GCP here. I am based in SEA and would like to get into Spark & Surge. We are a part of an incubator but our incubator asked us to talk directly to GCP but GCP asked us to ask incubator. We are in a bind. Can someone from GCP help us in this matter?

Shoot me a note, we'll sort it out

A bit off the topic: I tried to search for this but couldn't get anything conclusive. Are applications hosted on GCP, GAE, Google Cloud Storage and Google Cloud CDN accessible in China?

If I am not mistaken, Firebase is OK but then again no one from Firebase is willing to verify this.

London and Northern Virginia have also launched recently.

Any plan for GAE in SG region in the foreseeable future?

Eagerly awaiting Indian region. :)

Make sure to register your interest via our form! (thanks to jpatokal for the direct link):

https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSc8eJiKN4tu6CNPyFpA...

Is the latency so bad to Singapore?

Mombai <=> Singapore is roughly 60 ms. Chennai being closer and where many things meet is ~30 ms. So it kind of depends on what your latency requirements are (remote database no, website sure) or as jpatakol said if you must be located in India for other reasons.

Disclosure: I work on Google Cloud but am no networking / regulatory expert ;).

Quite often seeing questions from customers if the systems can be hosted inside a particular country to avoid transmitting data outside. Not because of technical reasons, but because of local legislation or privacy issues.

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