Google Cloud Opens Seoul 'Region'

[Asia Economy Reporter Buaeri] Google Cloud announced on the 19th that it has launched the 'Google Cloud Platform (GCP)' Seoul region to support Korean customers. A region refers to an infrastructure area that provides Google Cloud Platform services.

This is Korea's first GCP region and the eighth region in the Asia-Pacific area.

The plan to open the GCP Seoul region was first announced last April at 'Google Cloud Next' held in San Francisco, USA. Starting operation on this day, Seoul is included in Google Cloud's global infrastructure scope, which consists of 21 regions and 64 zones across 16 countries worldwide.

Rick Hashim, Head of Google Cloud Asia-Pacific, said, "Korea is a digital powerhouse boasting a solid manufacturing industry with strengths in robotics and artificial intelligence (AI), a huge gaming market, and the world's leading smartphone penetration rate," adding, "We are very pleased to officially open the GCP Seoul region."

With the opening of the GCP Seoul region, domestic and global companies doing business in Korea are expected to reduce data and application access latency.

Various standard Google Cloud service products such as ▲Compute Engine ▲Google Kubernetes Engine ▲Cloud Bigtable ▲Cloud Spanner ▲BigQuery will also be provided.

Samsung Electronics, a representative customer of Google Cloud, has introduced various Google Cloud solutions into its voice recognition platform Bixby to provide stable services to users worldwide.

Jang Subaek, Head of Samsung Electronics AI Server Development Group and Executive Director of the Wireless Business Division, said, "Thanks to Google Cloud's excellent flexibility and scalability, Samsung Electronics provides various services more stably and economically," adding, "With the opening of the GCP Seoul region, we will be able to further expand Samsung Electronics' influence."

In addition to Samsung Electronics and Lotte Members, Google Cloud is cooperating with various Korean customers such as SK Telecom, Netmarble, LG Electronics, Wemakeprice, and SundayToz to help customers seize greater business opportunities and solve important challenges.

Hashim emphasized, "The opening of the GCP Seoul region shows Google Cloud's commitment to supporting Korean customers more closely," adding, "Google Cloud will solve the most complex business and technical problems faced by customers through strategic investments."

This content was produced with the assistance of AI translation services.