Comment by matt-p

Comment by matt-p 3 months ago

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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.

chatmasta 3 months 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 3 months 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 3 months ago

      I’m very naive on the subject here - what advantage would this give someone?

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