us-east1 colocates App Engine, Cloud Datastore, and other Cloud Platform services, making communication between services faster, while offering high availability of App Engine and Cloud Datastore across multiple zones. If you’re interested in building solutions that use App Engine in conjunction with Compute Engine or Cloud Storage, or if you’d like the latency of your Cloud Datastore writes to benefit from having all replicas in close proximity to one another, this is big news.
To get started, simply open up the Developers Console and create a new project, specifying the location as us-east1. Note that once a project is created, its region cannot be changed.
To learn more about the services offered in each location, as well as best practices for deploying your applications and saving your data across different regions and zones, check out our Cloud Datacenter Locations and Geography and Regions pages.
- Posted by Lorne Kligerman, Product Manager