Re:How Diane Greene Transformed Google's Cloud
by boulos on Monday June 20, 2016 @02:37AM
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Hmm, our Taiwan region (asia-east1) is too far? We've had a number of customers from India, and thanks to our points-of-presence throughout the world it's not so simple as "AWS is in Singapore, Google is in Taiwan". That said, we hear you, and you can imagine we've done a lot of asking customers (and losing deals!) on the basis of where we are and where we could be.
Disclosure: I work on Compute Engine.
Re:How Diane Greene Transformed Google's Cloud
by harshal on Monday June 20, 2016 @08:02AM
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Yes, Taiwan is too far. I personally know of an adtech startup that is going through contortions because they need to stay below latency limits on specific ad exchanges and those exchanges are located in Singapore. Taiwan is certainly way to far for them.
There are other instances where I think additional ~50ms latency diff to from India to Taiwan matters much less and I am dubious if it is material. But what matters if that the difference exists and people believe it does matter.
Re:How Diane Greene Transformed Google's Cloud
by poooogles on Monday June 20, 2016 @11:42AM
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We're squeezing by in Taiwan just about, if anything changes networking wise though we're going to have to diversify to more providers.
If you're struggling to respond within 50ms anyway then you're going to have a bad time with the added latency. Thankfully our 95th percentile is around 20ms.
We are however having to go into AWS for Aus/NZ which is a pain.
They have so far just mentioned they are adding two regions soon - but nothing about where. I fear its just additional options in Europe or something ... 2017 is still too far out for a startup considering options today.
Edit: Oh .... looks like I missed the announcement that the two new regions are Tokyo and Oregon. Looks like India is out of luck for now.