Google Cloud Platform expands to Australia with new Sydney region

Google Cloud Platform expands to Australia with new Sydney region(cloudplatform.googleblog.com)

94 points by mikecb 8 years ago | 26 comments

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

nodesocket 8 years 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.

jpatokal 8 years 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-...

If you contact Sales, they may be able to provide additional detail under NDA. https://cloud.google.com/contact/

Disclaimer: I work at GCP.

theDoug 8 years 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).

shric 8 years ago | |

Nobody at Google will provide future release dates that aren't yet published. Launch dates can slip.

theDoug 8 years 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.)

mixmastamyk 8 years ago | |

Or the São Paulo region?

pbarnes_1 8 years 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 8 years 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

mkj 8 years ago |

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

mikecb 8 years ago | |

Circumstantial evidence points to a strong Equinix partnership.

mkj 8 years ago | | |

Huh, so the "3 availability zones" are 3 datacentres on a 1km stretch of road? https://goo.gl/maps/CSpsvPWsxNE2

CloudQA 8 years ago |

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

jnordwick 8 years ago |

Too many googleblog posts recently. Seriously.

uji 8 years ago | |

Good or bad thing?

epinto 8 years ago | | |

Good

jnordwick 8 years ago | | |

Bad

Mayzie 8 years ago | | |

The Ugly

$ 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