[rdevsrex]

Really? Sometimes when there is a problem with out of SA connectivity the only non-local websites that work are Google and YouTube. I’ve got 20ms ping times so Google must have a point of presence in SA.

[Havoc]

They have some sort of caching or CDN yes, but you can't spin up a gcp compute instance for example. Ie far away from a full blown cloud region.

Also the presence of local CDN doesn't imply Google presence. Eg the steam servers in SA are hosted by ISPs

[bobviolier]

I am gonna guess he meant a datacenter for Google Cloud. Google probably has their own points-of-presence for Google and YouTube.

[9nGQluzmnq3M]

Yes, it does, check out the network tab here: https://cloud.google.com/about/locations/

[cheerlessbog]

Azure recently opened a datacenter, apparently AWS and GCP do not yet have one.

https://www.geekwire.com/2019/microsofts-south-african-data-...