Google Cloud Inter-region latency and throughput Posted by gw5815 on Friday April 17, 2020 @05:53PM from the datastudio.google.com dept. https://datastudio.google.com/s/nruft7xTHHM ( 1 comment | 2 points | on HN )
The answer was
> There's not a lot of connectivity between Europe and SE Asia the "short" way. This is not Google-specific, compare cables across Atlantic and Pacific vs. across the Indian Ocean at https://www.submarinecablemap.com/