INSUBCONTINENT EXCLUSIVE:
Google Cloud new region in Los Angeles is now online, the company announced today
This isn&t exactly a surprise, given that Google had previously announced a July launch for the region, but it a big step for Google, which
now boasts five cloud regions in the United States
It was only three years ago that Google opened its second U.S
region and, while it was slow to expand its physical cloud footprint, the company now features 17 regions around the world.
When it first
announced this new region, Google positioned it as the ideal region for the entertainment industry
And while that surely true, I&m sure we&ll see plenty of other companies use this new region, which features three availability zones, to
augment their existing deploymentsin Google other West Coast region in Oregon or as part of their overall global cloud strategy.
The new
region is launching with all the core Google Cloud compute services, like App Engine, Compute Engine and Kubernetes Engine, as well as all
of Google standard database and file storage tools, including the recently launched NAS-likeCloud Filestore service
For businesses that have a physical presence close to L.A., Google also offers two dedicated interconnects to Equinix and CoreSite local LA1
data centers.
It worth nothing that Microsoft, which has long favored a strategy of quickly launching as many regions as possible, already
offered its users a region in Southern California
AWS doesn&t currently have a presence in the area, though, unlike Google, AWS does offer a region in Northern California.
