Google Cloud Build timeout fail when deploying to australia-southeast1

[Jacob R]

Over the past few weeks my gcloud app deploy has been failing regularly, today it fails even after attempting 10 times so far. According to the google cloud web interface, it is failing after build in the exporting phase:

7: exporter

/cnb/lifecycle/exporter asia.gcr.io/<project>/app-engine-tmp/app/ttl-2h:<uuid>

Is there anything we can do about this at all? The build itself takes just a few minutes, then this exporter phase runs until the 10m mark and is killed.

One idea, is perhaps there is a way to make gcloud app deploy do the build in the asia region to prevent the network delays?