Google doesn't put GCP compute inside Equinx Slough. I could perhaps believe if they have a cage of routers and perhaps even CDN boxes/Edge, but no general cloud compute.

Google and AWS will put routers inside Equinx Slough sure, but that's literally written on the tin, and the only way a carrier hotel could work.

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chatmasta 9 months ago | parent [-]

Then why do they obfuscate the location of their servers? If they were all in Google datacenters, why not let me see where my VM is?

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achierius 9 months ago | parent [-]

Security reasons, I presume? Otherwise it would be trivial for an adversary to map out their resources by sampling VM rentals over a moderate time-period.

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lostlogin 9 months ago | parent [-]

I’m very naive on the subject here - what advantage would this give someone?

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chupasaurus 9 months ago | parent [-]

The knowledge of blast radii.

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jazzyjackson 9 months ago | parent [-]

Gives whole new meaning to “reverse engineering”

	▲	chupasaurus 9 months ago \| parent [-]
		Well, the alternative name for it is "backwards engineering" for a reason.