Infrastructure Briefing — June 18, 2025
Google Cloud detailed 2025 Asia-Pacific resilience upgrades, including expanded Japan West capacity, subsea diversity, and AI-driven incident response telemetry for regulated workloads.
Executive briefing: Google Cloud’s 2025 regional update outlined capacity expansions and resilience improvements across Asia-Pacific, focusing on the Japan West (Osaka) region and new subsea cable diversity supporting financial and manufacturing customers. The company also introduced AI-assisted incident response telemetry built into its Resilience Suite for regulated workloads.
Key infrastructure signals
- Japan West capacity. Google Cloud is adding a third zone with independent utility feeds and water-side economisation, targeting go-live in October 2025.
- Subsea diversification. The Pacific Connect cable, launching in partnership with KDDI and others, links Japan, Guam, and Australia with redundant landing stations hardened against extreme weather.
- AI telemetry. Resilience Suite integrates anomaly detection across power, cooling, and network telemetry, providing customers with API hooks for automated incident playbooks.
Control alignment
- Financial Services Agency guidelines. Document how the third zone and subsea diversity satisfy Japan FSA cloud outsourcing guidance on concentration risk.
- ISO 22301. Map Google’s AI telemetry outputs to business continuity KPIs tracked in regulated industries.
- Supply chain reporting. Align subsea cable resiliency disclosures with vendor risk assessments, especially for manufacturing customers exporting from Japan.
Detection and response priorities
- Integrate Google Cloud’s Resilience Suite APIs with SOC workflows to alert when telemetry indicates infrastructure stress exceeding customer-defined thresholds.
- Test multi-region failover between Tokyo and Osaka using the new subsea capacity, logging metrics required for regulators.
Enablement moves
- Communicate updated service architecture diagrams to risk officers, highlighting subsea paths and sovereign data handling.
- Schedule joint exercises with Google Cloud’s incident response team to validate AI-generated recommendations before they drive automated remediation.
Sources
- Google Cloud Blog: 2025 APAC resilience update (June 18, 2025)
- Google Blog: Introducing the Pacific Connect subsea cable (June 18, 2025)
Zeph Tech integrates Google Cloud resilience telemetry and subsea diversity into regulated workload architectures, sustaining uptime commitments across Asia-Pacific.