While the OP is more wrong than right they aren't completely incorrect. I'm in Australia. GCP has 2 regions in Australia, Sydney and Melbourne. The Sydney reg

While the OP is more wrong than right they aren't completely incorrect. I'm in Australia. GCP has 2 regions in Australia, Sydney and Melbourne. The Sydney region is in the Equinox DC. Not sure where the Melbourne one is but it isn't a Google-owned facility. You can see this by comparing Google's Data Center list: https://www.google.com/about/datacenters/locations/ https://www.google.com/about/datacenters/locations/ vs their Cloud Location list https://cloud.google.com/about/locations#asia-pacific https://cloud.google.com/about/locations#asia-pacific Note that the Cloud Locations aren't just "edge": they offer hosting, GPUs etc etc at these locations.