July 2018
Intermediate to advanced
506 pages
16h 2m
English
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App Engine locations
App Engine applications are region-specific. When creating an App Engine application, users specify the region on which to run their services. All services and instances will be colocated within this region and spread across the zones within that region. Almost all regions support App Engine, with the following exceptions:
- Oregon (us-west1)
- Singapore (asia-southeast1)
- Taiwan (asia-east1)
Note that once the App Engine region has been selected for a project, it cannot be changed. When choosing a region, there are a couple of considerations to make. First, consider the geographical distribution of your current (and expected) user base as latency will largely be determined by the physical distance between users and your ...