Today, we are thrilled to announce that we will open a Google Cloud Platform (GCP) region in Hong Kong in 2018. Hong Kong is an international commercial hub and is among the world’s leading service-oriented economies. By opening this region, customers in Hong Kong will benefit from low latency and high performance of their cloud-based workloads and data. The region is also designed for high availability, launching with three zones to protect against service disruptions.

Hong Kong will be the sixth GCP region in Asia Pacific, joining the recently launched Mumbai, Sydney, and Singapore regions, as well as Taiwan and Tokyo. And that's not the end of our Asia Pacific investments — stay tuned for news about upcoming Asian regions in the coming months.