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New regions in Tokyo, Sydney, Singapore, Mumbai, Finland, Frankfurt, London, Sao Paulo and N. Virgina, with 3 zones per region (2 in Fin and Sing)? That brings
by mikecb 10y ago
New regions in Tokyo, Sydney, Singapore, Mumbai, Finland, Frankfurt, London, Sao Paulo and N. Virgina, with 3 zones per region (2 in Fin and Sing)? That brings them to 37 (edit: soon 38 with a third zone in Oregon) zones in 14 regions. In addition, they're putting down building footprints in Alabama and Tennessee, which may become new regions in the future, and adding buildings in Oregon, Iowa, South Carolina, and Belgium, which may become new zones. In March, they announced 10 new regions in 2017, and the above numbers account for only 8.
AWS will have 40 zones in 16 regions in the same time period (based on their public announcements.
Not sure about the AWS backbone though. GCP has access to dedicated fiber from the US to both the Pacific and South America on the order of 10Tbps, and that's just the wholly-owned stuff disclosed in public. Amazon is quite hush hush on their network.
- boulos 10y agoSorry 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.
- mikecb 10y agoCool! I've been going mostly off of satellite photos and guesses. 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.)
- boulos 10y agoOur current locations that we (Google) own and operate are listed here: https://www.google.com/about/datacenters/inside/locations/index.html 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/ 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?
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- mikecb 10y agoJust a hobby. Some people build models, I hunt for infrastructure. It's fun to follow the build-ups as newer sat imagery is available. 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.
- daveloyall 10y agoSpeaking of locations... Here's a nitpick... :) 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/AAAAAAAADIs/Cx3pc4MlBasLG3uB2VBsZ-gCpqy_ftbvACLcB/s1600/google-cloud-network.png https://2.bp.blogspot.com/-mCc_hmccB3k/V-y4E1VHooI/AAAAAAAAD...
- boulos 10y agoI know! I looked at it and said "Wow, what the hell? Did someone decide the dots would be too close?". All I can say is "Sorry, Diagram for conceptual purposes only". However, it is one of our first to include the submarine cables! (So it's got that going for it)
- mikecb 10y agoYeah, the cables were very cool to see. 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.
- cwisecarver 10y agoAny chance you guys will be getting FedRAMP certification on GKE? We love GKE but we're looking at AWS because we will don't want to rule out anything in the future.
- eitally 10y agoIn the works.
- yread 10y agofor completeness Azure has 30 regions https://azure.microsoft.com/en-us/regions/ https://azure.microsoft.com/en-us/regions/
- mikecb 10y agoThough, 4 of those are US Gov only.
- discodave 10y agoThey're more comparable to AZs or datacenters than GCP/AWS regions.
- yread 10y agoWhat do you mean? Azure regions are in separate locations. Let's consider how many scenarios (datacenter power loss, earthquake, floods) lead to a failure of azure region vs AWS zone/region. Surely, floods and such have higher probability of taking down all availability zones in one AWS region (say Ireland) than taking down Ireland and Netherlands Azure zone at the same time?