GCP's Sydney region is now open

Australia's Google Cloud Platform region has arrived. Customers can now run their workloads and store data in Sydney. Our performance testing shows 80%-95% reductions in RTT latency when serving customers down-under, compared to using Singapore, Taiwan and Tokyo regions. See our announcement blog post. Google is investing in Asia Pacific with new submarine cables. Indigo connects Singapore, Indonesia, Perth and Sydney and will open in 2019. SJC connects Japan, Hong Kong and Singapore and opened in 2013. These submarine cables investments provide Google customers with private, high-speed connection to their cloud data.