Google today has announced the first cloud region in India which goes live in Mumbai. India’s cloud region will join other regions like Singapore, Taiwan, Sydney and Tokyo in Asia Pacific region. Google said that hosting applications in the new region can improve latency from 20-90% for end users in Chennai, Hyderabad, Bangalore, and of course Mumbai, compared to hosting them in the closest region, Singapore.
Google is offering the India region several services including Compute, Big Data, Storage, and Networking and even lets you buy these services directly in Indian rupees. With the launch of Google’s Cloud region, enterprises can advantage of the high speeds, low latency and performance benefits uniquely offered by GCP (Google Cloud Platform) services.
The India’s region will have three zones and is said to open up new opportunities for new partners who will be benefited from building their services and applications on Google Cloud. It will also allow developers and service providers test deploy applications on Google’s highly-scalable and reliable infrastructure.
Google, however, is a late entrant in India, with rivals like Amazon, Microsoft, IBM already have their public cloud data centers in the country.
Commenting on the launch, Dave Stiver, Product Manager, Google Cloud Platform, said:
We are delighted to announce the first GCP region in India. The new region will help customers build applications and store their data, and significantly improve latency for customers and end users in the area. Hosting applications in the new region can improve latency from 20-90% for end users in Chennai, Hyderabad, Bangalore, and of course Mumbai, compared to hosting them in the other closest region, Singapore.
Welcoming the Google’s Cloud region in India, Manish Verma, Chief Technology Officer at Hungama, said:
We wanted to have a low latency and secure cloud platform to create our active-active, high availability and load balanced multi-cloud setup. GCP gave us a low latency network, better than expected SSL performance, and the ability to optimize costs further with custom machine types. The new India region will help us bring our service even closer to Indian consumers.”