GCP migration and Areas where google is blocked

A user who is considering moving from self-hosted to GitLab.com Gold plan has asked this question.

We are currently planning to move from our hosted instance to a Gold account on gitlab.com. However we just learned the news that you will be moving your infrastructure to Google compute engine, and we are a little concerned with speed. I am part of a web agency based in China, where most of Google's infrastructure is blocked, on our side we have a MPLS solution already that allows us to access blocked resources, however I would like to know more from your side what this change could mean for us.

I see that they currently have no data centers in Hong Kong, however I see that they are planning to open them. Do you already have plans of where your solution will be deployed?

ZD: https://gitlab.zendesk.com/agent/tickets/100085

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