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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.

by boulos 10y ago

mikecb 10y ago
Cool! 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 ago
  Our 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 ago
    Just 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 ago
Speaking 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 ago
  I 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 ago
    Yeah, 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 ago
Any 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 ago
  In the works.

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.

by boulos 10y ago

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.

mikecb 10y ago

Cool! 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 ago
Our 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?
- deleted 10y ago
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- mikecb 10y ago
  Just 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 ago

Speaking 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 ago
I 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 ago
  Yeah, 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 ago

Any 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 ago
In the works.