Comment by chatmasta
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?
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?
Well, the alternative name for it is "backwards engineering" for a reason.
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.