Comment by chatmasta

Comment by chatmasta 5 hours ago

Maybe leasing wholesale space shouldn’t be considered colocation, but GCP absolutely does this and the Slough datacenter was a real example.

I can’t dig up the source atm but IIRC some Equinix website was bragging about it (and it wasn’t just about direct connect to GCP).

matt-p 4 hours ago

Google doesn't put GCP compute inside Equinx Slough. I could perhaps believe if they have a cage of routers and perhaps even CDN boxes/Edge, but no general cloud compute.

Google and AWS will put routers inside Equinx Slough sure, but that's literally written on the tin, and the only way a carrier hotel could work.

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chatmasta 4 hours ago

Then why do they obfuscate the location of their servers? If they were all in Google datacenters, why not let me see where my VM is?

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- achierius 4 hours ago
  
  Security reasons, I presume? Otherwise it would be trivial for an adversary to map out their resources by sampling VM rentals over a moderate time-period.
  
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  lostlogin 4 hours ago
  
  I’m very naive on the subject here - what advantage would this give someone?
  
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