Two new Google Cloud Regions in Italy, in Milan and Turin. Attend the online event

The Cloud Project. Thought for Italy was met with great enthusiasm back in 2020 when Google announced it. 

Milan and Turin, the two new Google Cloud Regions, will enhance the services and products offered to customers in our country. To find out all the details and benefits these two infrastructures will bring, we recommend that you register for the online event on Wednesday, June 15. 

The impact of course will go beyond the corporate world, touching Italy, its economy and the next generation of engineers and developers, helping them solve their biggest and most important challenges.

Google already has a number of data centers in Europe, including London, Zurich, Frankfurt, Belgium, the Netherlands and Finland, and will soon continue its expansion to Doha (Qatar), Berlin (Germany), Dammam (Kingdom of Saudi Arabia), Dallas (Texas) and Tel Aviv (Israel).

The opening of Google Cloud's Italian Cloud Region is an important signal both for development strategies in our country, for compliance with European and national privacy regulations, but also foraccelerating the adoption of cloud useful to meet the challenge of digital transformation.

All regions at launch will offer Compute Engine, Google Kubernetes Engine, Cloud Storage, Persistent Disk, Cloud SQL, Virtual Private Cloud, Cloud Key Management Service, Cloud Identity, and Secret Manager among their products, and will continue to grow based on customer demand. 

What is meant by Google Cloud Region?

When we talk about Google Cloud Region, what does it refer to? "Region" refers to the area where the cloud infrastructure is hosted for services aimed at enterprises of various sizes.

This provides enterprises with a data center for application and database management.

Google allows you to work on your own data center so that customers can use tools to:

• complex and quality online services;
• intelligent analytics;
• processing, managing and storing data on the platform.

Businesses have a platform directly connected to Google's private network, providing a high level of openness and security with access to all Google Cloud Platform services. 

What are the advantages of having two Google Cloud Regions in Italy?

Let's see in detail what are the advantages of having two Google Cloud Regions in Italy:

1. Accelerating digital transformation as a key growth engine for the Italian economy.
2. Businesses will be able to better serve their users thanks to reduced latency -- which guarantees high performance -- and the ability to store their applications on local public cloud servers. Performance tests show a significant reduction in round trip time (RTT) latency compared to using cloud regions located in more distant countries. 
3. Multiple regions in the same country-as in the Italian case, with Milan and Turin-offer corporate customersa secondary site for disaster recovery, meeting data residency requirements. The two Italian regions will have 6 data centers available to avoid disruption of operations and will be launched with the standard set of Google Cloud Platform products. This investment will make it easier for businesses and institutions to access the full potential of cloud computing based on Google Cloud's artificial intelligence technologies, while maintaining the highest standards of security, data residency and compliance. 

Digital transformation toward a sustainable future

Investment in the cloud will help accelerate digital transformation, and this will also continue to impact the sustainability and efficiency of internal processes, encouraging innovative business models.

Migrating to the cloud in fact enables companies of any size to move toward a smarter, digital and sustainable vision, thanks in part to a decrease in energy consumption. 

The trend has been growing steadily in recent years and shows no signs of slowing down.