Google cloud is one of the biggest players in the cloud market and it is expanding more on physical footprints of its data centers. A few days ago, it announces to spend $3.3 billion on its data centers in Europe.
Now, it announced to open a new region in Warsaw, Poland to better serve its customers in Central and Eastern Europe.
To launch the new region in Poland, Google is partnering with Domestic Cloud Provider (a.k.a. Chmury Krajowej, which itself is a joint venture of the Polish Development Fund and PKO Bank Polski). Domestic Cloud Provider (DCP) will become a Google Cloud reseller in the country and build managed services on top of Google’s infrastructure.
“This is an important moment for the Polish economy. We are very proud to partner with Google Cloud and to see them bring a new cloud region to Warsaw. Global enterprises are already building their competitive advantage on Google Cloud and now we will be able to offer customers in Poland the same advanced technology available worldwide,” said Michał Potoczek, CEO of Domestic Cloud Provider. “We believe in a multi-cloud strategy. A Google Cloud region, together with our own infrastructure, will allow us to build hybrid services which will bring even more value to our customers.”
As of 2019, Google Cloud Platform is available in 20 regions and 61 zones. A region is a specific geographical location where users can deploy cloud resources. Each region is an independent geographic area that consists of zones.
A zone is a deployment area for Google Cloud Platform resources within a region. Zones should be considered a single failure domain within a region. Most of the regions have three or more zones.
Google Cloud Products
Google lists over 90 products under the Google Cloud brand that consists of Compute Engines, Storages, IoT, Networking, Big Data, Cloud AI, Management Tools, Identity & Security, and API Platform.
