India’s First Google Cloud Region Established in Mumbai

After a long wait of more than a year, India is finally getting its first Google Cloud Platform Region, which will be established in Mumbai. The platform is being developed in a bid to provide users a better and more efficient medium for developing applications on the cloud. The company had announced in the Cloud Summit held in India last month that the country will get its first Google Cloud Platform by the end of this year, and now the news is confirmed.

Google Cloud Platform (GCP), which is a dedicated cloud service by Google, will now be offered through a physical region to help Indian enterprises speed up their development process with the help of a comprehensive package of cloud services. The India region will also make it possible for users to buy these cloud services from Google in the local currency.

Mumbai is the fifth Asia-Pacific region after Singapore, Tokyo, Taiwan and Sydney to get a Google Cloud region.

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Dave Stiver, Product Manager, Google Cloud Platform, said during the launch, "We are delighted to announce the first GCP region in India. The new region will help customers build applications and store their data, and significantly improve latency for customers and end users in the area."

Even though the service is being launched in Mumbai, it will be accessible throughout the country. It can now also be used with any data service that was previously limited to the Indian region as per the government norms.

In addition to a reliable cloud storage, Google through its India region will offer many other services, including big data, networking, computing and development. The Mumbai cloud region will have three zones and will present great opportunities for businesses that are looking to build new services on Google Cloud.

GCP will make it possible for developers to build and test their applications on a highly secure, reliable and powerful infrastructure that works on the same standards as other Google services like Google Search and Youtube.

"Hosting applications in the new region can improve latency from 20-90 percent for end users in Chennai, Hyderabad, Bengaluru and, of course, Mumbai, compared to hosting them in the other closest region, Singapore," said Stiver.

Manish Verma, CTO, Hungama, said, "GCP gave us a low latency network and the ability to optimise costs further with custom machine types. The new India region will help us bring our service even closer to Indian consumers."