Map of AWS, Azure & GCP data-center locations

UpdateI now have a more improved version of the map that I revise at intervals

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Rather than a tabular summary, a visual map of the global location of data centers of the three popular cloud providers - Amazon Web Services, Azure & Google Cloud Platform  provides a better view of how they are distributed. Having this information is helpful when you have to locate the nearest cloud region to deploy a solution & handle latency

As newer data centers keep getting added, I wanted to have a easy way to view a dynamic map. I learnt from a smart geek that it is easy to hook location details in a Google Spreadsheet to a custom Google Map.

To get the latitude and longitude from the location name, I used the following formula in Google Sheets -
=IMPORTXML("http://maps.googleapis.com/maps/api/geocode/xml?address=" &D32, "/GeocodeResponse//location")
where D32 is a reference to the cell containing the name of a datacenter location provided in the public cloud provider's documentation.

It is not perfect yet, but it was fun building it. Check the map out
The info about locations are drawn from the official documentation. Precise locations are not available in a few cases.

In case of AWS, location of AWS GovCloud (US-East) is not known while an upcoming Google Cloud Platform region is just revealed as Netherlands without specifying the name of the place. In the list of Azure regions, the state, province, or city is listed for most regions in the Locations column. For both "West Central US" and "West US 2", the Location column value is the same as the region name.

I plan to track the documentation & update the custom map when new regions are announced.

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