Globally distributed?

[Joshua Turmel]

When you deploy an app on GAE is it globally distributed? And if so, where are the main nodes located?

I have an app I'd like to consider using GAE for, but one requirement is global distribution so that we're as close to our users as we can be.

[Brandon Wirtz]

GAE really runs on a Bot Net powered by everyone that runs Google Chrome…

 

It is less global than some networks, but because of strong peering it is also faster than most other networks.  It wouldn’t be secure if Google told you where the servers are, so they don’t tell you.

 

-Brandon

 

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[Wolfram Gürlich]

Brandon, haven't you read the NDA that came with Google Chrome? I guess you're really in trouble now... :-)

@Joshua - the core of GAE like frontend servers are supposed to be in North America only. Pingdom.com shows by
*far* the lowest latency when pinging from their servers in Atlanta, GA....

Google has edge servers around the globe. But those are only points where your request will enter the internal Google network. As far as I know even Google is bound by the speed of light. So it will definetly take some time to transfer those requests to the frontend instances.

[Joshua Turmel]

Thanks guys!