Google’s India Cloud region goes live

The India region in Mumbai will offer several services including compute, big data, storage and networking

November 01, 2017 02:36 pm | Updated 02:36 pm IST - Bengaluru

Google on Wednesday announced the opening of its first Google Cloud Platform region in Mumbai. The India region will offer several services including compute, big data, storage and networking. The internet giant said, with the India region going live, enterprises will be able to take advantage of the high speeds, low latency and performance benefits uniquely offered by Google Cloud Platform (GCP) services. Further, Indian customers will now be able to buy these services directly in Indian rupees.

“We are delighted to announce the first GCP region in India,” said Dave Stiver, Product Manager, Google Cloud Platform, in a statement. The company said 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, Bengaluru, “and of course Mumbai, compared to hosting them in the other closest region, Singapore,” said Mr.Stiver.

Google said its investment in a local cloud region reaffirms the company’s commitment to its customers in the country. The launch of the cloud region which will have three zones also opens up newer opportunities for several new partners "who will benefit from building their services on Google cloud" said the company. The new Mumbai region, joins Singapore, Taiwan, Sydney and Tokyo in Asia Pacific. The company said this makes it easier for customers to build highly available, 'performant' applications using resources across those geographies.

“The new India region will help us bring our service even closer to Indian consumers,” said Manish Verma, Chief Technology Officer at Hungama, a digital media entertainment company.

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