There is indeed a Google Cloud Platform region in Sydney, but that's for GCP customer data only, not consumer Gmail etc. There are no "main" Google DCs in Aust

There is indeed a Google Cloud Platform region in Sydney, but that's for GCP customer data only, not consumer Gmail etc. There are no "main" Google DCs in Australia: https://www.google.com/about/datacenters/inside/locations/ https://www.google.com/about/datacenters/inside/locations/ I would presume the same applies to Microsoft and Amazon.