Alphabet, Google's parent company announced that it is expanding its Google Cloud Platform(GCP) to two new regions, bringing the services to U.S. Western region of Oregon and the East Asian region of Japan.
Varun Sakalkar, Product Manager of Google, wrote in a blog, "These are the first two of more than 10 additional GCP regions we'll be adding to our network through 2017. We’re opening these new regions to help Cloud Platform customers deploy services and applications nearer to their own customers, for lower latency and greater responsiveness. With these new regions, even more applications become candidates to run on Cloud Platform, and get the benefits of Google-level scale and industry leading price/performance."
