In March 2020, Google announced plans to launch a second cloud region in India. The proposed cloud region in Delhi is expected to help regulated industries such as healthcare, financial services, and other public sector organisations. The first Google cloud region in India was established in Mumbai in 2017.

The Delhi cloud region will be officially launched in 2021 and will have three zones to protect against service disruptions. It will include a portfolio of key GCP products and offer low latency to the users. With the Delhi cloud region, businesses can take advantage of big data and infrastructure services onshore in alignment with India’s data laws and regulations. Together with the Mumbai region, it is expected to enable a geographically separate in-country network for customers’ mission-critical applications.

Google cloud regions

Google cloud regions are a deployment area for Google Cloud Platform resources. Each of these regions consists of zones, and every zone is designated as the single failure domain within that region. Most regions have three or more such zones.

Currently, Google has 24 of these cloud regions and 73 zones across 17 countries. In 2020, four of these regions were launched–Jakarta (Indonesia), Las Vegas (U.S.), Salt Lake City (U.S.), and Seoul (South Korea)Google has also announced four more upcoming cloud regions in Doha (Qatar), Madrid (Spain), Milan (Italy), and Paris (France).

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