Google activated a new us-east1 region in South Carolina for Google Compute Engine, Google Cloud Storage, and Google Cloud SQL. Google App Engine will be coming soon.
Google said the addition of the South Carolina location gives customers across North America the capability to build multi-region disaster recovery plans for their applications running on Google Cloud Platform.
http://googlecloudplatform.blogspot.com/2015/10/Bringing-Google-Cloud-Platform-closer-to-more-people-and-businesses.html
