Google Cloud Platform Arrives in Canada with Launch of Montréal Region

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I saw a post yesterday using http://cloudping.info to compare latency numbers between us and AWS. It’s similar enough in concept (and gcping.com wasn’t first), but I can’t vouch for its accuracy. They both seem directionally correct though. Stuff nearby is about right, and our backbone makes a big differnce for lots of routes.

Disclosure: I work at AWS.

A few small differences I think are worth pointing out:

- gcping continually pings and displays the median latency, whereas cloudping is a one-time ping for each region.

- gcping GETs an IP Address, whereas cloudping GETs a hostname.

Not making any claims about how this may or may not affect the comparison.

Not exactly, this is a similar concept though

http://s3-accelerate-speedtest.s3-accelerate.amazonaws.com/e...

http://cloudharmony.com/speedtest-for-aws