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Maybe leasing wholesale space shouldn’t be considered colocation, but GCP absolutely does this and the Slough datacenter was a real example. I can’t dig up the
by chatmasta 2y ago
Maybe leasing wholesale space shouldn’t be considered colocation, but GCP absolutely does this and the Slough datacenter was a real example.
I can’t dig up the source atm but IIRC some Equinix website was bragging about it (and it wasn’t just about direct connect to GCP).
- matt-p 2y agoGoogle doesn't put GCP compute inside Equinx Slough. I could perhaps believe if they have a cage of routers and perhaps even CDN boxes/Edge, but no general cloud compute. Google and AWS will put routers inside Equinx Slough sure, but that's literally written on the tin, and the only way a carrier hotel could work.
- chatmasta 2y agoThen why do they obfuscate the location of their servers? If they were all in Google datacenters, why not let me see where my VM is?
- achierius 2y agoSecurity reasons, I presume? Otherwise it would be trivial for an adversary to map out their resources by sampling VM rentals over a moderate time-period.
- lostlogin 2y agoI’m very naive on the subject here - what advantage would this give someone?
- chupasaurus 2y agoThe knowledge of blast radii.
- jazzyjackson 2y agoGives whole new meaning to “reverse engineering”
- chupasaurus 2y agoWell, the alternative name for it is "backwards engineering" for a reason.