My google app instances does not seem to be on correct region

Question

I have just created one google app engine application and one 2nd Generation MySQL instance in eu-west2 region. In GCP Console they both seems to be in eu-w

Answer 1

I faced the same issue, you can find more about it here: Outgoing HTTP Request Location on Google App Engine

Is about the Google Network usage, the outgoing traffic come from the "Point of Presence" instead of the location and it can be dynamic. In my case, I have no solution, since it's mandatory to my API to make the requests from Brazil =\

Answer 2

Google has an extensive world wide network. What you are seeing is us routing you to Google's closest Point of Presence (POP), which from that point on you're on a software defined network (SDN). What this means is we get your traffic on to our fast network as quickly as possible and abstract away the details of getting you to the machine in question.

Check latency from you to these hosts, then spin up a VM in Europe and check latency from that VM to these hosts - you'll find the numbers will confirm they really are in eu-west2.