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Google Cloud Platform expands to Australia with new Sydney region

94 points by mikecb 9y ago

nealmueller 9y ago
More detail on the region: https://cloud.google.com/about/locations/sydney https://cloud.google.com/about/locations/sydney
nodesocket 9y ago
Awesome. Any GCP folks here have an ETA on the new California region? Can't wait until we can provision clusters across two regions (California <=> Oregon) while keeping the speed of light latency low.
- mixmastamyk 9y ago
  Or the São Paulo region?
- shric 9y ago
  Nobody at Google will provide future release dates that aren't yet published. Launch dates can slip.
  - theDoug 9y ago
    This is incorrect. We happily share a transparent and very open view into 3+ quarters ahead with customers and partners under NDA! We just publish for broader public when its open for the broader public. (Source: me, the GCP roadmap Program Manager. Who also appreciates how consistently our NDA is upheld internally and externally.)
    - throwaway2048 9y ago
      what is the point of an NDA around launch dates?
- jpatokal 9y ago
  The ETA for all of California (United States), Frankfurt (Germany), Hamina (Finland), Montreal (Canada), Mumbai (India), Netherlands and Sao Paulo (Brazil) is "2017". https://cloud.google.com/compute/docs/regions-zones/regions-zones#announced https://cloud.google.com/compute/docs/regions-zones/regions-... If you contact Sales, they may be able to provide additional detail under NDA. https://cloud.google.com/contact/ https://cloud.google.com/contact/ Disclaimer: I work at GCP.
  - theDoug 9y ago
    Disclosure: I also work on GCP Correct! If you've signed the GCP NDA there is a lot of additional clarity for upcoming regions. Please reach out to Sales and have them contact me if need be (contact info in profile).
jnordwick 9y ago
Too many googleblog posts recently. Seriously.
- uji 9y ago
  Good or bad thing?
  - epinto 9y ago
    Good
  - jnordwick 9y ago
    Bad
  - Mayzie 9y ago
    The Ugly
mkj 9y ago
Anyone able to say (or guess!) where the datacentres are?
- mikecb 9y ago
  Circumstantial evidence points to a strong Equinix partnership.
  - mkj 9y ago
    Huh, so the "3 availability zones" are 3 datacentres on a 1km stretch of road? https://goo.gl/maps/CSpsvPWsxNE2 https://goo.gl/maps/CSpsvPWsxNE2
    - toomuchtodo 9y ago
      Why would that be surprising?
      - mkj 9y ago
        Seems they might share fibre susceptible to excavators, etc. I guess they've probably thought of that ;)
        toomuchtodo 9y ago
        Availability zones are physically separate, but I wouldn't count on them to survive a catastrophic physical event localized to that geographic area.
        deleted 9y ago
        [deleted]
      - niftich 9y ago
        AWS in contrast likes to spread things out more, like in Northern Virginia where they have 5 different AZs that are supplied from different electrical substations and confer some 'more than one block down the street' geographic separation. While a bunch of them are in the usual Ashburn-Sterling-Dulles triangle on north of Dulles Airport, there's also ones in Chantilly on the south side of the airport, and past Manassas another 15 miles out. When AWS rolled out in Ohio, they did the same thing [1], locating two of them in the suburbs northwest of Columbus and one northeast, or in Sweden where they're in Västerås and Eskilstuna on opposite sides of a large lake, and a third in Katerineholm another 50 km out. [1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12730012 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12730012
pbarnes_1 9y ago
Can you guys please add this to the default VPC for people? For whatever reason every other region is there already but not this. I can't create GCE instances because it's missing the subnet and you can't add a subnet to the default VPC. $ gcloud compute networks describe default autoCreateSubnetworks: true creationTimestamp: '2017-06-11T21:02:YY.XXX-07:00' description: Default network for the project id: 'XXX' kind: compute#network name: default selfLink: https://www.googleapis.com/compute/v1/projects/project/global/networks/default subnetworks: - https://www.googleapis.com/compute/v1/projects/project/regions/asia-east1/subnetworks/default - https://www.googleapis.com/compute/v1/projects/project/regions/us-east4/subnetworks/default - https://www.googleapis.com/compute/v1/projects/project/regions/europe-west2/subnetworks/default - https://www.googleapis.com/compute/v1/projects/project/regions/us-east1/subnetworks/default - https://www.googleapis.com/compute/v1/projects/project/regions/asia-southeast1/subnetworks/default - https://www.googleapis.com/compute/v1/projects/project/regions/us-west1/subnetworks/default - https://www.googleapis.com/compute/v1/projects/project/regions/asia-northeast1/subnetworks/default - https://www.googleapis.com/compute/v1/projects/project/regions/us-central1/subnetworks/default - https://www.googleapis.com/compute/v1/projects/project/regions/europe-west1/subnetworks/default x_gcloud_mode: auto
- jpatokal 9y ago
  GCP support here. We're aware of some users hitting this, it's an artifact of how the new regions are published to existing projects. This should be resolved for all users by the end of the day (Sydney time). In the meantime, try these workarounds: * Create a new project, it should work off the bat * Create a manual network and explicitly add the subnetworks you want
CloudQA 9y ago
Any ETA on the new India region? Eagerly waiting to provision clusters to keep the latency low for our customers.

94 points by mikecb 9y ago

More detail on the region: https://cloud.google.com/about/locations/sydney https://cloud.google.com/about/locations/sydney

nodesocket 9y ago

Awesome. Any GCP folks here have an ETA on the new California region? Can't wait until we can provision clusters across two regions (California <=> Oregon) while keeping the speed of light latency low.

mixmastamyk 9y ago
Or the São Paulo region?
shric 9y ago
Nobody at Google will provide future release dates that aren't yet published. Launch dates can slip.
- theDoug 9y ago
  This is incorrect. We happily share a transparent and very open view into 3+ quarters ahead with customers and partners under NDA! We just publish for broader public when its open for the broader public. (Source: me, the GCP roadmap Program Manager. Who also appreciates how consistently our NDA is upheld internally and externally.)
  - throwaway2048 9y ago
    what is the point of an NDA around launch dates?
jpatokal 9y ago
The ETA for all of California (United States), Frankfurt (Germany), Hamina (Finland), Montreal (Canada), Mumbai (India), Netherlands and Sao Paulo (Brazil) is "2017". https://cloud.google.com/compute/docs/regions-zones/regions-zones#announced https://cloud.google.com/compute/docs/regions-zones/regions-... If you contact Sales, they may be able to provide additional detail under NDA. https://cloud.google.com/contact/ https://cloud.google.com/contact/ Disclaimer: I work at GCP.
- theDoug 9y ago
  Disclosure: I also work on GCP Correct! If you've signed the GCP NDA there is a lot of additional clarity for upcoming regions. Please reach out to Sales and have them contact me if need be (contact info in profile).

jnordwick 9y ago

Too many googleblog posts recently. Seriously.

uji 9y ago
Good or bad thing?
- epinto 9y ago
  Good
- jnordwick 9y ago
  Bad
- Mayzie 9y ago
  The Ugly

mkj 9y ago

Anyone able to say (or guess!) where the datacentres are?

mikecb 9y ago
Circumstantial evidence points to a strong Equinix partnership.
- mkj 9y ago
  Huh, so the "3 availability zones" are 3 datacentres on a 1km stretch of road? https://goo.gl/maps/CSpsvPWsxNE2 https://goo.gl/maps/CSpsvPWsxNE2
  - toomuchtodo 9y ago
    Why would that be surprising?
    - mkj 9y ago
      Seems they might share fibre susceptible to excavators, etc. I guess they've probably thought of that ;)
      - toomuchtodo 9y ago
        Availability zones are physically separate, but I wouldn't count on them to survive a catastrophic physical event localized to that geographic area.
        deleted 9y ago
        [deleted]
    - niftich 9y ago
      AWS in contrast likes to spread things out more, like in Northern Virginia where they have 5 different AZs that are supplied from different electrical substations and confer some 'more than one block down the street' geographic separation. While a bunch of them are in the usual Ashburn-Sterling-Dulles triangle on north of Dulles Airport, there's also ones in Chantilly on the south side of the airport, and past Manassas another 15 miles out. When AWS rolled out in Ohio, they did the same thing [1], locating two of them in the suburbs northwest of Columbus and one northeast, or in Sweden where they're in Västerås and Eskilstuna on opposite sides of a large lake, and a third in Katerineholm another 50 km out. [1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12730012 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12730012

pbarnes_1 9y ago

Can you guys please add this to the default VPC for people? For whatever reason every other region is there already but not this. I can't create GCE instances because it's missing the subnet and you can't add a subnet to the default VPC. $ gcloud compute networks describe default autoCreateSubnetworks: true creationTimestamp: '2017-06-11T21:02:YY.XXX-07:00' description: Default network for the project id: 'XXX' kind: compute#network name: default selfLink: https://www.googleapis.com/compute/v1/projects/project/global/networks/default subnetworks: - https://www.googleapis.com/compute/v1/projects/project/regions/asia-east1/subnetworks/default - https://www.googleapis.com/compute/v1/projects/project/regions/us-east4/subnetworks/default - https://www.googleapis.com/compute/v1/projects/project/regions/europe-west2/subnetworks/default - https://www.googleapis.com/compute/v1/projects/project/regions/us-east1/subnetworks/default - https://www.googleapis.com/compute/v1/projects/project/regions/asia-southeast1/subnetworks/default - https://www.googleapis.com/compute/v1/projects/project/regions/us-west1/subnetworks/default - https://www.googleapis.com/compute/v1/projects/project/regions/asia-northeast1/subnetworks/default - https://www.googleapis.com/compute/v1/projects/project/regions/us-central1/subnetworks/default - https://www.googleapis.com/compute/v1/projects/project/regions/europe-west1/subnetworks/default x_gcloud_mode: auto

jpatokal 9y ago
GCP support here. We're aware of some users hitting this, it's an artifact of how the new regions are published to existing projects. This should be resolved for all users by the end of the day (Sydney time). In the meantime, try these workarounds: * Create a new project, it should work off the bat * Create a manual network and explicitly add the subnetworks you want

CloudQA 9y ago

Any ETA on the new India region? Eagerly waiting to provision clusters to keep the latency low for our customers.