GCPing is a simple single-page website where you can find out the relative
latency between your browser and multiple GCP regions. GCP manages data centers
around the world, but which one is closest to you, or more importantly, your
customers? GCPing can answer that.
GCPing is a 20% project, and for the four years since its inception it was
backed by small f1-micro GCE VMs in each region, with a public IP address, and
a static HTML and JavaScript frontend served from GCS.
Over time, new regions would come online, or basic maintenance and upgrades