I was confused at first but it seems like the site lists for google products only, doesn't seem to list some of the regions google cloud is available in (such as nothing in shown in Canada). But scrolling down it has a link to Google cloud regions.
I assume that's only their own data centers, not where they rent space in other data centers.
Especially in the western half of the US. Exactly four, half of them here in Nevada, none of them in California despite Google itself being headquartered there.
And none of the on the continents of Africa or Australia.
Not a Google employee. Last I recall, the only place in Africa that stood to benefit from local infrastructure was South Africa, yet because of how geographically isolated it was from the next nearest hop, latency and packet loss were just intolerable. The latter should be solvable, though the former was dependent on closer neighbors. Same goes for Australia, more or less. I’m curious why there isn’t more demand in Nigeria or Kenya though!
They have a cloud presence in Sydney for example. They just presumably don’t own the DC because it’s too small to be worth building their own
Nobody lives there. Ten times more people live in Indonesia.
>> Africa
> Nobody lives there
Africa has just under 20% of the world's population.
I was pretty obviously responding to the Australia part.
Is population actually an issue? The cost may well be cheaper
I had the opposite reaction. I'm from The Netherlands. It's a tiny country, but we're getting a fourth one apparently.