A world-class global presence

Google's 13 regions are connected by the first multi-tier global fiber network from a major public cloud provider. With over 100 points of presence, Google Cloud offers your users low latency no matter where they are in the world. This private fiber optic network is the backbone of Google's own global presence, made available to GCP customers.  On top of this, Google offers powerful networking tools for easily building out your own network architecture. These tools include fully software-defined networks, self-adjusting network routing between on-premises networks and the cloud via Cloud Routers and VPNs, and dedicated interconnection to bring Google's stellar network to your door.

Building globally available services comes with a distinct set of problems, which Google is committed to addressing. For instance, as a user base grows, geographical issues such as data consistency become more challenging. To solve this problem, Google created Cloud Spanner—a strongly consistent relation database that scales to thousands of nodes across the world. Content-heavy service providers look to provide a consistent experience across their user base. On a global scale, this can become challenging due to network limitations such as latency and congestion. To address issues like these, Google offers worldwide CDN services via multi-regional Cloud Storage buckets. To enhance your global reach further, Google offers a range of extremely powerful load balancing solutions. With features such as anycast IP for simplified DNS, health check integrations, and content-aware routing, Google's load balancers make it easy to reap the benefits of a global presence.