Re:GCP arrives in India with launch of Mumbai region
by AndrewMock on Tuesday October 31, 2017 @09:03PM
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Datacenter staffing in the cloud is fairly easy; only about 6 or so are needed on-prem for HVAC and hands-on. The rest are remote. Many cloud datacenters are able to be located in extremely obscure locations because of this.
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Re:GCP arrives in India with launch of Mumbai region
by augustz on Tuesday October 31, 2017 @10:23PM
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GCP and AWS do not use 6 people per region.
With AWS a region has more than one availability zone.
aws ec2 describe-availability-zones --region ap-south-1 for example shows two datacenters in mumbai.
Across physical site security, to power to network to just hard drive and system decommissioning, more than 6 staff.
I wonder if this is partly why AWS has done so well. I've used colo and hosted providers who do seem to have basically no one actually on site.
Re:GCP arrives in India with launch of Mumbai region
by matt_wulfeck on Wednesday November 01, 2017 @12:56AM
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Maybe double that number, or triple it. The point stands that you don’t need a large pool of local talent to operate a data center.
Re:GCP arrives in India with launch of Mumbai region
by ptman on Wednesday November 01, 2017 @04:02AM
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The Google data center in Hamina, Finland, statedly employs about 300. It's a mix of technical, security, catering and cleaning/facilities. Source (in Finnish): http://www.tivi.fi/Kaikki_uutiset/google-ei-aio-laajentaa-da...