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Google has created a new “Asia” region and two new zones – “asia-east1-a” and “asia-east1-b” - for its cloudy Compute Engine service. The new region uses Ivy Bridge CPUs, which means it is built on more modern Intel kit and should offer superior performance compared to Google's Sandy-Bridge-using US and Europe regions. Google …

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  1. Victor from GenieDB

    Latency is a huge deal for some.

    Hey Simon, love your "span planet with cloud at acceptable latency" club, and I'd like to stress its importance. I work at GenieDB, and we distribute a single database over multiple cloud providers in multiple regions. Through our experience, a user may sometimes expect latency (if they know that they're overseas), it is not acceptable for games of all kinds (mobile/PC/console), especially those that use a single database in different regions (we have use-case). Well, thanks to Google, GenieDB also switched on support for the two new Asia Pacific Google Cloud regions today!

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