The primary data centers serving App Engine are in North America, however, assets and items that are edge cached are served from Google edge caches which are located wherever there are Google data centers.
When evaluating page speed, it's typically assets that cause page speeds to appear slow: http://stevesouders.com/hpws/rules.php Only dynamic calls to your application logic would be routed to North America. If you follow these rules, websites should still load quickly - there is a fairly large App Engine community in Japan. -- Ikai Lan Developer Programs Engineer, Google App Engine plus.ikailan.com | twitter.com/ikai On Tue, Aug 2, 2011 at 3:30 AM, Simon Knott <knott.si...@gmail.com> wrote: > Hi, > > As far as I'm aware, the most accurate information the Google staff have > divulged is that all data centres are located in North America somewhere. > > Cheers, > Simon > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "Google App Engine" group. > To view this discussion on the web visit > https://groups.google.com/d/msg/google-appengine/-/OvHwAZFC9aYJ. > > To post to this group, send email to google-appengine@googlegroups.com. > To unsubscribe from this group, send email to > google-appengine+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. > For more options, visit this group at > http://groups.google.com/group/google-appengine?hl=en. > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Google App Engine" group. To post to this group, send email to google-appengine@googlegroups.com. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to google-appengine+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/google-appengine?hl=en.
