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user3471414
user3471414

Reputation: 31

Google Cloud Platform Compute Engine which asia region is nearest to Singapore?

Google Cloud Platform Compute Engine which asia region is nearest to Singapore? I tried all 3 region and ping it but all shows US California location...

Upvotes: 2

Views: 2416

Answers (2)

lambshaanxy
lambshaanxy

Reputation: 23042

2017 update: Google Cloud Platform now has a asia-southeast1 region in Singapore itself.

See: https://cloud.google.com/about/locations/

Upvotes: 3

Stephen Weinberg
Stephen Weinberg

Reputation: 53398

There is only one region in Asia (asia-east1). However, there are 3 zones (asia-east1-a, ...). All three zones are in the same geographic location. None of them are "closer" to any location than the others.

Picking a zone based on location is probably not what you want to be doing anyways. Instead, you should try to connect from different locations and look at ping, traceroute, speedtest, etc. A place that is geographically closer may not be closer based on routing. I at one point had to pick an AWS region for a VPN available to programmers in China. We found US-East had the best connection even though Singapore (not sure if Tokyo existed at the time) was obviously geographically closer.

Upvotes: 3

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