Andrew Walker
Jul 21, 2017 · 1 min read

We’ve done one interesting project where this was an issue, back in 2013.

It was a tablet+mobile app for government delegates travelling to China. The backend was on App Engine.

We got around it with proxies in that case as most of Google’s IP ranges are blocked by China.

The best answer today is to partner with AppScale, who are VERY clever people and as you can see from their website, they’re focusing on China as their primary use-case.

They will take away the infrastructure issue so you can host an app written for App Engine (public) on Azure or other providers in China. Or even private infrastructure.

We’re hoping to experiment with this in 2017 with them, we have a couple of opportunities lined up.

I’m not 100% that this makes sense over a native Amazon install (or similar) but my gut feel says yes.

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