That's a really interesting site. I happen to be reading this in Mauritius, and the "closest" data center (using the classical Ping metric) is London; I guess that's the old trade routes in action.
In Helsinki, I'm seeing (on Telia 4G) the Finland region quickest at 50ms and the rest >60ms. Similarily on DNA cable, the Finland region is quickest at 42ms and the rest >55ms.
Perhaps they peer with (some of) the ISPs but not (yet) with other DCs?
"Designed for Speed - Hosting applications in the new region can improve latencies by up to 65% for end-users in the Nordics and by up to 88% for end-users in Eastern Europe, compared to hosting them in the previously closest region."https://cloud.google.com/about/locations/finland/
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[ 5.1 ms ] story [ 29.7 ms ] threadThe actual hardware is likely much more recent, and GCE allows you some control over which version is used and reported: https://cloud.google.com/compute/docs/instances/specify-min-...
[1] https://cloud.google.com/compute/docs/regions-zones/
Perhaps they peer with (some of) the ISPs but not (yet) with other DCs?
"Designed for Speed - Hosting applications in the new region can improve latencies by up to 65% for end-users in the Nordics and by up to 88% for end-users in Eastern Europe, compared to hosting them in the previously closest region." https://cloud.google.com/about/locations/finland/