Google announces new Cloud Region in Mumbai for Indian customers

MUMBAI, INDIA: Google announced that it will open a new Google Cloud Region in Mumbai. Expected to be live in 2017, the India cloud region is aimed at offering Google Cloud Platform services to Indian developers and enterprise customers.

Google made the announcement about the India Cloud Region at an event in San Francisco, called Horizon.

Brian Stevens, Vice President, Google Cloud, “By expanding to new regions, we deliver higher performance to customers. In fact, our recent expansion in Oregon resulted in up to 80% improvement in latency for customers. We look forward to welcoming customers to our new Cloud Regions as they become publicly available throughout 2017.”

With more than one billion end users, Google Cloud has gained significant traction in India and across the world and the investment will help make Google Cloud Platform services even faster for Indian customers.

Google Cloud Platform takes the infrastructure, machine learning and networking services used to power Google services and makes them available to businesses and developers to build high performance applications and data analysis at a low cost.

As India’s startup community continues to grow, Cloud Platform provides the full stack of services to build, test and deploy their applications.

The opening of the cloud region will also open up newer opportunities for several new cloud partners who will benefit from building their services on Google Cloud.

At Horizon, Google also unveiled G Suite. Previously called Google Apps for Work, G Suite encompasses a set of intelligent apps - Gmail, Docs, Drive, Calendar, Hangouts, and more - designed to bring people together, with real-time collaboration built in from the start.