Google Cloud is set to open a new cloud region in Melbourne, which will be the firm's second region in Australia and its 11th in the APAC region overall.
The tech giant revealed that Melbourne joins the existing 26 Google Cloud regions worldwide connected via its high-performance network.
“With this our second region in Australia, customers benefit from improved business continuity planning with distributed, secure infrastructure needed to meet IT and business requirements for disaster recovery, all the while maintaining data sovereignty in-country,” said Alister Dias, Google Cloud vice president of Australia & New Zealand.
The company stated that its cloud customers operating in Australia and New Zealand will benefit from low latency and high performance of their cloud-based workloads and data.
Furthermore, the region opens with three zones to protect against service disruptions and offers a portfolio of key products like Google Kubernetes Engine, Cloud Spanner, and Compute Engine.
Google Cloud stated that it will continue to invest in expanding connectivity across Australia and New Zealand by working with partners to establish subsea cables and new Dedicated Cloud Interconnect locations and points of presence in major cities including Sydney, Melbourne, Canberra and Auckland.
This aims to deliver geographically distributed and secure infrastructure to customers across the region, which it said is especially important for those in regulated industries like Financial Services and the Public Sector.
RELATED RESOURCE
Earlier this month, Google Cloud opened its second region in India in Delhi, four years after the launch of its Mumbai cloud region in 2017. The company said this new region would better support customers and the public sector in India and across the Asia Pacific.
Thomas Kurian, Google Cloud CEO, said that the company had seen “enormous growth in demand for Google Cloud services in India” so wanted to be able to offer more capacity with the new region. He called it a “large commitment” from Google Cloud in terms of capital and infrastructure investment and was designed to allow the company to capture the opportunity it sees around growth.
-
Bigger salaries, more burnout: Is the CISO role in crisis?In-depth CISOs are more stressed than ever before – but why is this and what can be done?
-
Cheap cyber crime kits can be bought on the dark web for less than $25News Research from NordVPN shows phishing kits are now widely available on the dark web and via messaging apps like Telegram, and are often selling for less than $25.
-
Alibaba to cut cloud prices by nearly 50% to accelerate market shareNews Cloud competition in the APAC region is heating up, and Alibaba’s latest move could be a key differentiator
-
Google announces new cloud regions in Asia PacificNews The regions join six planned and 34 already operational Google Cloud regions
-
Cloudera to invest £50 million into India in next two yearsNews The company is also opening a newly expanded Centre of Excellence facility in Bengaluru
-
AWS strengthens hold on Australian public sector with renewed government dealNews The deal will make it easier for AWS partners to work with government entities
-
Salesforce to trial green AI tools to help companies fast-track their journey to net zeroNews An agreement with the Australian government will also see the tech giant set up a staff tech hub in Adelaide
-
Rackspace fortifies APAC footprint with new acquisitionNews The company has acquired Just Analytics, a cloud-based data, analytics and AI firm
-
AWS to launch cloud services reseller in AustraliaNews AWS Australia will allow customers in the region to buy services locally for the first time
-
Google opens its second cloud region in IndiaNews The new Delhi region follows the launch of its Mumbai zone in 2017
