The Google Cloud Region in Zurich was announced in May 2018 and opened in March 2019. Alphabet's public cloud is building an availability region in Zürich, Switzerland. The region will launch with three separate zones.
The Zurich region launch comes equipped with the standard set of GCP products, including Compute Engine, Google Kubernetes Engine, Cloud Bigtable, Cloud Spanner, and BigQuery. This is in addition to Cloud Interconnect, Google’s private, software-defined network provides a link between each region around the world.
| Distance | Site name | SqFt | MW |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1.26 miles | Equinix Zurich ZH2 ZH4 | 16,932 | |
| 1.26 miles | GTT Zurich | 12,873 | 0.72 |
| 1.30 miles | Equinix Zürich ZH1 | 5,813 | 0.40 |
| 2.22 miles | Level3 Zürich | ||
| 3.94 miles | Interxion Zurich | 71,042 | 12.00 |
| 3.98 miles | Interxion ZUR2 | ||
| 3.99 miles | Green Datacenter Glattbrugg | ||
| 4.04 miles | Interxion ZUR3 | ||
| 4.24 miles | Equinix Zurich ZH5 | 71,800 | 18.23 |
| 5.06 miles | NTT Zurich 1 | 75,347 | 15.00 |
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