Then why do they obfuscate the location of their servers? If they were all in Google datacenters, why not let me see where my VM is?
Security reasons, I presume? Otherwise it would be trivial for an adversary to map out their resources by sampling VM rentals over a moderate time-period.
I’m very naive on the subject here - what advantage would this give someone?
The knowledge of blast radii.
Gives whole new meaning to “reverse engineering”