Google Cloud Platform (GCP) Jakarta now alive
Compare pricing and function for GCP Southeast Asia
For previous year, GCP asia southeast region only have Singapore as data centre, for nowadays Jakarta region is become new member of southeast. It will give privileges for Financial institution to deploy application and data center inside indonesia to comply with regulation of Personally identifiable information. Also reduce network latency rather than region outside indonesia. Jakarta now becomes one of 24 regions and 73 zones along 17 countries with served by google cloud.
Regions are independent geographic areas that consist of zones. Locations within regions tend to have round-trip network latencies of under <1ms on the 95th percentile. For example jakarta located on asia-southeast2 and have 3 zone asia-southeast2-a, asia-southeast2-b, and asia-southeast2-c
Jakarta region provides services such of Compute engine, Kubernetes, Cloud SQL, Cloud Spanner, BigTable and bigQuery. Hybrid customer also can have direct link via Dedicated Interconnect service.
We try to compare based on these article written date (8–6–2020). Also google pricing calculator still not updated yet. TLDR; pricing is same with singapore region, so when your service running in singapore, these is great momentum to move it closer to your customer.
Both region have same pricing schema, even for upgraded VM like second generation CPU it goes have par pricing for $60.79 each month.
Jakarta region also already support multiple OS
For database it also support for PostgreSql, MySql, and SQL Server
For bucket storage, google cloud storage now support for Jakarta region.
For Kubernetes it now support region and multi zone or specific zone for deploy those cluster
Unfortunately for Redis is still not supported on Indonesia
We also waiting Amazon Web Service to release data center in Jakarta to give head to head alternative for our as customer.
