Ask HN: Does Google Cloud really route India - Europe traffic through US?

3 points

6 years ago

I was checking GCPing.com [1] to check latency to GCP regions from my place. I noticed that latency to European regions is around 400ms. When GCP launched Network Service Tiers, they were showing this map [2] where they didn't have any cable between europe/middle east and India. Now they are showing this map [3] which does, but latency to european regions is still the same. Why is that?

PS. I'm using Reliance Jio and Hathway Broadband (which are major ISPs in India). Maybe they are doing this?

[1] https://i.imgur.com/dxfLV6Z.png

[2] https://i.imgur.com/ozpoFQ2.png

[3] https://i.imgur.com/8tYrdub.png