By Dave Stiver, Product Manager, Google Cloud Platform

The first Google Cloud Platform region in India is now open for you to build applications and store your data, and promises to significantly improve latency for GCP customers and end users in the area.¹

The new Mumbai region, asia-south1, joins Singapore, Taiwan, Sydney and Tokyo in Asia Pacific and makes it easier to build highly available, performant applications using resources across those geographies.

Hosting applications in the new region can improve latency from 20-90% for end users in Chennai, Hyderabad, Bangalore, and of course Mumbai, compared to hosting them in the closest region, Singapore.

Services 

The Mumbai region has everything you need to build the next great application, and three zones to make it stand up to whatever Mother Nature has to offer:
Interested in a GCP service that’s not available in the India region? No problem. You can access this service via the Google Network, the largest cloud network as measured by number of points of presence.

If you’d like to privately connect to the Mumbai region, we offer Dedicated Interconnect at two locations, these locations are GPX Mumbai and Tata Mumbai IDC.

Pay in local currency

With the opening of this Mumbai region, Indian customers are now able to buy these services directly in Indian rupees. Below is an animated GIF of the SKUs tool in action, now in rupees.

What customers are saying

Indian companies welcome the addition of this GCP region to South Asia.

“We wanted to have a low latency and secure cloud platform to create our active-active, high availability and load balanced multi-cloud setup. GCP gave us a low latency network, better than expected SSL performance, and the ability to optimize costs further with custom machine types. The new India region will help us bring our service even closer to Indian consumers.” 

— Manish Verma, Chief Technology Officer at Hungama

“As a senior leader within the organization, I see the key benefits of GCP and other technologies being lower cost, greater efficiency and improved business continuity. For example, the current data center team can be redeployed to other initiatives as the technical experts at GCP will be undertaking most of the management and maintenance tasks.” 

— R D Bhatnagar, Chief Technology Officer at DB Corp

“Google has been pushing hard into deep learning and making powerful tools and technologies available on GCP. We really appreciate the stability and scalability of the GCP platform. As a fast-growing startup, we can scale our platform up and down in minutes with few worries.” 

— Dr. Sven Niedner, Chief Operations Officer at Innoplexus

"Once our team was exposed to GCP and understood the benefits of the platform, our mindset changed from 'let us do everything on our own' to 'let us do what we do best' and delegate the remainder. We are always eager to see what new services are being launched and are extremely excited about what GCP can provide as part of its roadmap." 

— Sandeep Kalidindi, Head of Technology at PaGaLGuy

Getting started

For help migrating to GCP, please contact our local partners. For additional details on the Mumbai region, please visit our Mumbai region page where you’ll get access to free resources, whitepapers, the "Cloud On-Air" on-demand video series and more. Our locations page provides updates on the availability of additional services and regions. Contact us to request early access to new regions and help us prioritize what we build next.

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By Dave Stiver, Product Manager, Google Cloud Platform and Varun Sakalkar, Sr. Staff Datacenter Engineer  

Read this post in Portuguese. A Nova Região GCP de São Paulo está abertaa
Read this post in Spanish. La Nueva Región GCP de San Pablo está abierta

We’re pleased to announce that the São Paulo region is now open to the public as southamerica-east1. This is our first Google Cloud Platform (GCP) region in South America, and it promises to significantly improve latency for GCP customers and end users in the area. Performance testing shows 80% to 95% reductions in round-trip time (RTT) latency are possible when your serve customers in Chile, Argentina and Brazil compared to using other GCP regions in the U.S. GCP customers are able to build applications and store data* in Brazil as well as make payments in Brazilian Reais.

Services 

We’ve launched São Paulo with three zones and the following services. You can combine any of the services you deploy in São Paulo with other GCP services around the world such as Data Loss Prevention, Cloud Spanner and BigQuery.

What customers are saying

“With the arrival of the Google Cloud Platform region in Brazil, Dotz sees the potential of boosting its business entirely. We are excited with the new opportunities we can take advantage of with the opening of the new region, leveraging the current use of the tools we are working on in GCP.”  

— Cristiano Hyppolito, CTO of Dotz

 "We’re excited that GCP will be offering soon a region in São Paulo. Contabilizei has been a GCP client since 2013, and our fast growth was possible thanks to GCP tools. We believe that this launch will improve our service performance, and will contribute to the growth of the Latin American community of Google Cloud Platform users. The launch of the São Paulo GCP region will continue to support us in order for Contabilizei to continue delivering services 90% cheaper than traditional accountants."  

— Fabio Bacarin, CTO Contabilizei

“The majority of our clients and partners are in Brazil. The launch of the Google Cloud Platform region in São Paulo will reduce the latency of its products, and with this take down the last barrier so we can massively use the Google Cloud for services that interface with our clients.”  

— Flavio Tooru, Movile

Getting started 

For help migrating to GCP, please contact any of the following local partners: Alest, iPnet, SantoDigital, Safetec, UOL,QiNetwork. For additional details on the São Paulo region, please visit our São Paulo region page where you’ll get access to free resources, whitepapers, an on-demand video series called "Cloud On-Air" and more. Our locations page provides updates on the availability of additional services and regions. Contact us to request early access to new regions and help us prioritize what we build next.

*Please visit our Service Specific Terms to get detailed information on our data storage capabilities.

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A Nova Região GCP de São Paulo está aberta

O Google Cloud Platform chegou à América do Sul! A região de São Paulo já está aberta como southamerica-east1. Esta é a primeira região do Google Cloud Platform (GCP) na América do Sul e promete reduzir muito a latência para os clientes do GCP e usuários finais nessa área.

Com a região de São Paulo, a experiência dos clientes do GCP na América do Sul ficou melhor do que nunca. Agora, os clientes do GCP de todo o continente terão a oportunidade de armazenar e processar dados localmente no Brasil, além de comprar direto de uma entidade local em reais. Os testes de desempenho mostram reduções de 80% a 95% na latência do tempo de ida e volta (TIV) para clientes no Chile, na Argentina e no Brasil em comparação com outras regiões de GCP nos Estados Unidos.
O que os clientes estão dizendo:

Os clientes estavam ansiosos pelo lançamento da região do Google Cloud Platform na América Latina.

 "Com a chegada da região do Google Cloud Platform no Brasil, a Dotz vê a possibilidade de potencializar os negócios. Estamos empolgados com as novas possibilidades que poderemos aproveitar com a abertura da nova região, alavancando o uso atual das ferramentas que usamos no GCP."  

— Cristiano Hyppolito, CTO of Dotz

“Estamos muito felizes com o lançamento de uma região do GCP em São Paulo. A Contabilizei é cliente do GCP desde 2013, e nosso crescimento tão rápido só foi possível graças às ferramentas do GCP. Com certeza, esse lançamento vai melhorar o desempenho dos nossos serviços e vai contribuir para o crescimento da comunidade latino-americana de usuários do Google Cloud Platform. Com a região do GCP em São Paulo, a Contabilizei poderá oferecer serviços 90% mais baratos que as empresas de contabilidade tradicionais.” 

— Fabio Bacarin - CTO Contabilizei

 "A maioria dos nossos clientes e parceiros estão no Brasil. O lançamento da região do Google Cloud Platform em São Paulo vai diminuir a latência dos produtos e, com isso, derrubar a última barreira para podermos utilizar o Google Cloud de forma massiva nos serviços que fazem interface com nossos clientes." 

— Flavio Tooru, Movile

Servicios

Lançamos São Paulo com três zonas e os seguintes serviços:
Além disso, você pode combinar qualquer um dos serviços que você implanta em São Paulo com outros serviços GCP em todo o mundo, como DLP, Spanner e BigQuery.

Próximos passos

Se precisar de ajuda para implementar o GCP, entre em contato com o nosso time de vendas.

Para saber mais sobre a nova região, acesse o portal da região de São Paulo, que traz recursos gratuitos, fichas técnicas, vídeos da série 'Cloud On-Air' e muito mais. Esses materiais vão ajudar você a começar a trabalhar com o GCP. Além disso, na nossa página de regiões, você pode encontrar novidades sobre as regiões que estarão disponíveis em breve. Fale conosco para solicitar acesso antecipado a novas regiões e nos ajudar a priorizar nossos próximos passos.

* Por favor, visite nossos Termos Específicos de Serviços para obter informações detalhadas sobre nossa capacidade de armazenamento de dados.

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La Nueva Región GCP de San Pablo está abierta

¡Google Cloud Platform ha llegado a Sudamérica! La región de San Pablo está abierta ahora cómo southamerica-east1. Esta es nuestra primera región de Google Cloud Platform (GCP) en América del Sur, y promete mejorar significativamente la latencia para los clientes de GCP y los usuarios finales en el área.

Con la región de San Pablo, la experiencia de los clientes de GCP en Sudamérica es mejor que nunca. Por primera vez, la nueva región de Brasil ofrece a los clientes de GCP en toda Sudamérica, la oportunidad de almacenar y procesar datos localmente en Brasil. Las pruebas de rendimiento muestran reducciones del 80% al 95% en la latencia del tiempo de ida y vuelta (TIV) al servir a clientes en Chile, Argentina y Brasil en comparación con el uso de otras regiones de GCP en los Estados Unidos.

Comentarios de los clientes

Los clientes han estado ansiosos por el lanzamiento de la Google Cloud Platform región en Latinoamérica. .

“Con la llegada de la región basada en Brasil, Dotz ve el potencial de aumentar todos sus negocios. Estamos emocionados con las nuevas oportunidades que podríamos aprovechar con la apertura de la nueva región, aprovechando el uso actual de las herramientas de GCP que ya estamos utilizando.”  

— Cristiano Hyppolito, CTO of

“Estamos emocionados porque GCP ofrecerá una región en San Pablo. Contabilizei ha sido cliente desde el 2013, y nuestro rápido crecimiento fue posible gracias a las herramientas de GCP. Creemos que este lanzamiento mejorará el desempeño de nuestros servicios y obtener precios más competitivos, 90% más baratos que los de contadores tradicionales.” 

— Fabio Bacarin - CTO Contabilizei

“La mayoría de nuestros clientes y socios están en Brasil. El lanzamiento de la región de Google Cloud Platform en San Pablo disminuirá la latencia de sus productos, y con esto podremos derribar la última barrera para utilizar masivamente el Google Cloud para servicios que interactúan con nuestros clientes.” 

— Flavio Tooru - Movile

Servicios

Hemos lanzado San Pablo con tres zonas y los siguientes servicios:


Además, puede combinar cualquiera de los servicios que implementa en San Pablo con otros servicios de GCP en todo el mundo, como DLP, Spanner y BigQuery.

Próximos pasos

Si está buscando ayuda para implementar GCP, póngase en contacto con nuestro equipo de ventas.

Para más detalles sobre la región de San Pablo, por favor visite nuestro portal de la región de San Pablo, donde obtendrá acceso a recursos gratuitos, papeles blancos, la serie de videos 'Cloud On-Air' y más. Estos materiales le ayudarán a empezar a trabajar con GCP. En nuestra página de ubicaciones encontrará las próximas actualizaciones sobre otras regiones. Contáctenos para solicitar acceso temprano a nuevas regiones y ayudarnos a priorizar lo que construimos a continuación.

 *Por favor, visite nuestros Términos Específicos del Servicio para obtener información detallada acerca de nuestras capacidades de almacenamiento de datos.

By Dave Stiver, Product Manager, Google Cloud Platform

Starting today, Google Cloud Platform (GCP) customers can use the new region in London (europe-west2) to run applications and store data in London. London is our tenth region and joins our existing European region in Belgium. Future European regions include Frankfurt, the Netherlands and Finland.
Incredible user experiences hinge on performant infrastructure. GCP customers throughout the British Isles and Western Europe will see significant reductions in latency when they run their workloads in the London region. In cities like London, Dublin, Edinburgh and Amsterdam, our performance testing shows 40%-82% reductions in round-trip time latency when serving customers from London compared with the Belgium region.

We’ve launched London with three zones and the following services:
The London region puts the control over how to deploy resources directly in the hands of GCP customers — giving them choice in some GCP services on where to run their applications and store their data. When a customer signs up for GCP services, they have three different options, depending on the service:

1. Regional: Run applications and store data in a specific region, e.g., London, Tokyo, Iowa, etc.
2. Multi-regional: Distribute applications and storage across two or more cloud regions on a given continent, e.g., Americas, Asia or Europe.
3. Global: Distribute applications and store data globally across our entire global network for optimal performance and redundancy.

In addition, we've worked diligently over the last decade to help customers directly address EU data protection requirements. Most recently, Google announced a commitment to GDPR compliance across GCP. The General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR), which takes effect on May 25, 2018, is the most significant piece of European privacy legislation in the last 20 years.

"Google’s decision to choose London for its latest Google Cloud Region is another vote of confidence in our world-leading digital economy and proof Britain is open for business. It's great, but not surprising, to hear they've picked the UK because of the huge demand for this type of service from the nation's firms. Earlier this week the Digital Evolution Index named us among the most innovative digital countries in the world and there has been a record £5.6bn investment in tech in London in the past six months." 

— Karen Bradley, Secretary of State for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport

"At WP Engine, we look forward to extending our digital experience platform to an even broader set of our 10,000 European customers who want to be hosted on Google Cloud Platform based in the London region. We are excited about bringing reduced latency benefits from the ability to store and process data in London to our UK customers."  

— Jason Cohen, Founder and CTO

"The Telegraph benefits greatly from Google Cloud’s global scale and is pleased to see continued investment from Google Cloud in the UK. We look forward to working with them closely as they expand their business in the UK and Europe."  

— Toby Wright, CTO, The Telegraph

"Google Cloud enables Revolut to try new ideas and stay agile while providing secure, reliable services for our customers at scale."  

— Vladyslav Yatsenko, Co-founder & CTO, Revolut

For the latest on the terms of availability for services from this new region as well as additional regions and services, visit our London region page or locations page. For guidance on how to build and create highly available applications, take a look at our zones and regions page. Give us a shout to request early access to new regions and help us prioritize what we build next.

We’re excited to see what you’ll build on top of the new London region!

By Dave Stiver, Product Manager, Google Cloud Platform

Starting today, developers can choose to run applications and store data in Australia using the new Google Cloud Platform (GCP) region in Sydney. This is our first GCP region in Australia and the fourth in Asia Pacific, joining Taiwan, Tokyo and the recently launched Singapore.
GCP customers down under will see significant reductions in latency when they run their applications in Sydney. Our performance testing shows 80% to 95% reductions in round-trip time (RTT) latency when serving customers from New Zealand and Australian cities such as Sydney, Auckland, Wellington, Melbourne, Brisbane, Perth and Adelaide, compared to using regions in Singapore or Taiwan.

The Sydney GCP region is launching with three zones and several GCP services, and App Engine and Datastore will be available shortly:
Google Cloud customers benefit from our commitment to large-scale infrastructure investments. With the addition of each new region, developers have more choice on how to run applications closest to their customers. Google’s networking backbone, meanwhile, transforms compute and storage infrastructure into a global-scale computer, giving developers around the world access to the same cloud infrastructure that Google engineers use every day.

In Asia-Pacific, we’re already building another region in Mumbai, as well as new network infrastructure to tie them all together, including the SJC cable and Indigo cable fiber optic systems.

What customers are saying

Here’s what the new regions means to a few of our customers and partners.

"The regional expansion of Google Cloud Platform to Australia will help enable PwC's rapidly growing need to experiment and innovate and will further extend our work with Google Cloud.

It not only provides a reliable and resilient platform that can support our firm's core technology needs, it also makes available to us, GCP's market leading technologies and capabilities to support the unprecedented demand of our diverse and evolving business."

—Hilda Clune, Chief Information Officer, PwC Australia

"Monash University has one of the most ambitious digital transformation agendas in tertiary education. We're executing our strategy at pace and needed a platform which would give us the scale, flexibility and functionality to respond rapidly to our development and processing needs. Google Cloud Platform (GCP) and in particular App Engine have been a great combination for us, and we're very excited at the results we're getting. Having Google Cloud Platform hosted now in Australia is a big bonus." 

—Trevor Woods, Chief Information Officer, Monash University

Modern geophysical technologies place a huge demand on supercomputing resources. Woodside utilises Google Cloud as an on-demand solution for our large computing requirements. This has allowed us to push technological boundaries and dramatically reduce turnaround time.

— Sean Salter, VP Technology,Woodside Energy Ltd.

Next steps

We want to help you build what’s next for you. If you’re looking for help to understand how to deploy GCP, please contact local partners: Shine Solutions, Servian, 3WKS, Axalon, Onigroup, PwC, Deloitte, Glintech, Fronde or Megaport.

For more details on Australia’s first region, please visit our Sydney region page where you’ll get access to free resources, whitepapers, an on-demand training video series called "Cloud On-Air" and more. These will help you get started on GCP. Give us a shout to request early access to new regions and help us prioritize what we build next.

By Dave Stiver, Product Manager, Google Cloud Platform

Google Cloud Platform (GCP) continues to rapidly expand our global footprint, and we’re excited to announce the availability of our latest cloud region: Northern Virginia.
The launch of Northern Virginia (us-east4) brings the total number of regions serving the Americas market to four including Oregon, Iowa and South Carolina. We’ll continue to turn up new options for developers in this market with future regions in São Paulo, Montreal and California.

Google Cloud customers benefit from our commitment to large-scale infrastructure investments. Each region gives developers additional choice on how to run their applications closest to their customers, while Google’s networking backbone transforms compute and storage infrastructure into a global-scale computer, giving developers around the world access to the same cloud infrastructure that Google engineers use every day.

We’ve launched Northern Virginia with three zones and the following services:
Incredible user experiences hinge on incredibly performant infrastructure. Developers who want to serve the Northeastern and Mid-Atlantic regions of the United States will see significant reductions in latency when they run their workloads in the Northern Virginia region. Our performance testing shows 25%-85% reductions in RTT latency when serving customers in Washington DC, New York, Boston, Montreal and Toronto compared to using our Iowa or South Carolina regions.

"We are a latency-sensitive business and the addition of the Northern Virginia region will allow us to expand our coverage area and reduce latency to our current users. This will also allow us to significantly increase the capability of our Data Lake platform, which we are looking at as a competitive advantage" — Linh Chung, CIO at Viant, a Time Inc. Company

We want to help you build what’s Next for you. Our locations page provides updates on the availability of additional services, and for guidance on how to build and create highly available applications, take a look at our zones and regions page. Give us a shout to request early access to new regions and help us prioritize what we build next.