This mirror was announced 11/5/2015. Jason van Zyl wrote a blog post about it as well.
At some point updating failed, this service has been rebooted as of 6/1/2017. (and updated again 11/7/2019)
To use add the following to your ~/.m2/settings.xml
file:
<settings>
<mirrors>
<mirror>
<id>google-maven-central</id>
<name>GCS Maven Central mirror</name>
<url>https://maven-central.storage-download.googleapis.com/maven2/</url>
<mirrorOf>central</mirrorOf>
</mirror>
</mirrors>
</settings>
<settings>
<mirrors>
<mirror>
<id>google-maven-central</id>
<name>GCS Maven Central mirror EU</name>
<url>https://maven-central-eu.storage-download.googleapis.com/maven2/</url>
<mirrorOf>central</mirrorOf>
</mirror>
</mirrors>
</settings>
<settings>
<mirrors>
<mirror>
<id>google-maven-central</id>
<name>GCS Maven Central mirror Asia Pacific</name>
<url>https://maven-central-asia.storage-download.googleapis.com/maven2/</url>
<mirrorOf>central</mirrorOf>
</mirror>
</mirrors>
</settings>
We are currently mirroring the repo 12 times a day for the Americas bucket and 4 times / day for EU & Asia.
The mirror is created using the Storage Transfer Service. It is currently hosted in a Google Cloud Storage Multi-Regional storage bucket in the US.
If you have questions or issues, the maintainers may be reached at: gcs-maven-mirror@googlegroups.com
Additional mirrors