Compute Engine resources are hosted in multiple locations worldwide.
These locations are composed of regions and zones. A region is a specific
geographical location where you can host your resources. Regions have three or
more zones. For example, the us-west1 region denotes a region on the west
coast of the United States that has three zones: us-west1-a, us-west1-b,
and us-west1-c.
Resources that live in a zone, such as virtual machine instances or zonal persistent disks, are referred to as zonal resources. Other resources, like static external IP addresses, are regional. Regional resources can be used by any resource in that region, regardless of zone, while zonal resources can only be used by other resources in the same zone.
For example, to attach a zonal persistent disk to an instance, both resources must be in the same zone. Similarly, if you want to assign a static IP address to an instance, the instance must be in the same region as the static IP address.
Putting resources in different zones in a region reduces the risk of an infrastructure outage affecting all resources simultaneously. Putting resources in different regions provides an even higher degree of failure independence. This lets you design robust systems with resources spread across different failure domains.
Only certain resources are region- or zone-specific. Other resources, such as images, are global resources that can be used by any other resources across any location. For information on global, regional, and zonal Compute Engine resources, see Global, Regional, and Zonal Resources.
Identifying a region or zone
Each region in Compute Engine contains a number of zones. Each zone name contains two parts that describe each zone in detail. The first part of the zone name is the region and the second part of the name describes the zone in the region:
Region
Regions are collections of zones. Zones have high-bandwidth, low-latency network connections to other zones in the same region. In order to deploy fault-tolerant applications that have high availability, Google recommends deploying applications across multiple zones and multiple regions. This helps protect against unexpected failures of components, up to and including a single zone or region.
Choose regions that makes sense for your scenario. For example, if you only have customers in the US, or if you have specific needs that require your data to live in the US, it makes sense to store your resources in zones in the
us-central1region or zones in theus-east1region.Zone
A zone is a deployment area within a region. The fully-qualified name for a zone is made up of
<region>-<zone>. For example, the fully qualified name for zoneain regionus-central1isus-central1-a.Depending on how widely you want to distribute your resources, create instances across multiple zones in multiple regions for redundancy.
Zones and clusters
Compute Engine implements a layer of abstraction between zones and the
physical clusters where the zones are hosted. A cluster represents a distinct
physical infrastructure that is housed in a data center. Each zone is hosted in
one or more clusters and Compute Engine independently maps zones to
clusters for each organization. For example, the us-central1-a zone for your
organization might not map to the same cluster as the us-central1-a zone for
another organization.
Read the Zone virtualization document to learn more about zone-to-cluster mapping and zone virtualization concepts.
Decoupling zones from clusters provides a number of benefits to you and to Compute Engine:
- It allows Compute Engine to ensure resources are balanced across the clusters in a region.
- The list of zones you can choose from remains manageable as Compute Engine continues to grow its regions over time by adding more clusters.
For most organizations, Compute Engine ensures that all projects in an organization have a consistent zone to cluster mapping. For organizations with projects that use VPC Network Peering or Private services access to share networks or services with other organizations, Compute Engine tries to ensure that the peered organizations all have a consistent zone to cluster mapping. In the case of large-scale SaaS providers, for example, Compute Engine might not provide a consistent mapping for all peered organizations. In these cases, Compute Engine ensures that the peered projects have a consistent zone to cluster mapping.
Quotas
Certain resources, such as static IPs, images, firewall rules, and VPC networks, have defined project-wide quota limits and per-region quota limits. When you create these resources, it counts towards your total project-wide quota or your per-region quota, if applicable. If any of the affected quota limits are exceeded, you won't be able to add more resources of the same type in that project or region.
To see a comprehensive list of quotas that apply to your project, visit the Quotas page in the Google Cloud console.
For example, if your global target pools quota is 50 and you create 25 target pools in example-region-1 and 25 target pools in example-region-2, you reach your project-wide quota and won't be able to create more target pools in any region within your project until you free up space. Similarly, if you have a per-region quota of 7 reserved IP addresses, you can only reserve up to 7 IP addresses in a single region. After you reach that limit, you will either need to reserve IP addresses in a new region or release some IP addresses.
Transparent maintenance
Google regularly maintains its infrastructure by patching systems with the latest software, performing routine tests and preventative maintenance, and generally ensuring that Google infrastructure is as fast and efficient as Google knows how to make it.
By default, all instances are configured so that these maintenance events are transparent to your applications and workloads. Google uses a combination of datacenter innovations, operational best practices, and live migration technology to move running virtual machine instances out of the way of maintenance that is being performed. Your instance continues to run within the same zone with no action on your part.
By default, all virtual machines are set to live migrate, but you can also set your virtual machines to stop and reboot. The two options differ in the following ways:
Live migrate
Compute Engine automatically migrates your running instance. The migration process will impact guest performance to some degree but your instance remains online throughout the migration process. The exact guest performance impact and duration depends on many factors, but it is expected most applications and workloads will not notice. For more information, see Live Migration.
Stop and reboot
Compute Engine automatically signals your instance to shut down, waits a short time for it to shut down cleanly, and then restarts it away from the maintenance event.
For more information on how to set the options above for your instances, see Set VM host maintenance policy.
Choosing a region and zone
You choose which region or zone hosts your resources, which controls where your data is stored and used. Choosing a region and zone is important for several reasons:
- Handling failures
- Distribute your resources across multiple zones and regions to tolerate outages. Google designs zones to minimize the risk of correlated failures caused by physical infrastructure outages like power, cooling, or networking. Thus, if a zone becomes unavailable, you can transfer traffic to another zone in the same region to keep your services running. Similarly, you can mitigate the impact of a region outage on your application by running backup services in a different region. For more information about distributing your resources and designing a robust system, see Designing Robust Systems.
- Decreased network latency
- To decrease network latency, you might want to choose a region or zone that is close to your point of service. For example, if you mostly have customers on the East Coast of the US, then you might want to choose a primary region and zone that is close to that area and a backup region and zone that is also close by.
For more information about how to choose a region and zone for your Compute Engine resources, see Best practices for Compute Engine regions selection.
Location selection tips
During VM instance creation, Compute Engine can automatically select zones for your instances based on capacity and availability using the following methods:
- The bulk instance creation API can automatically choose the zone in which to create instances.
- A regional managed instance group (MIG) can be configured with a target distribution shape, which can automatically create instances in zones where resources are available.
- If you are creating a VM in the Google Cloud console and you know the machine type and region that you want but you aren't sure which zone to select, you can select Any and Google will choose a zone for you based on the machine type and availability.
When selecting zones yourself, here are some things to keep in mind:
Communication within and across regions will incur different costs.
Generally, communication within regions will always be cheaper and faster than communication across different regions.
Design important systems with redundancy across multiple zones or regions.
At some point in time, your instances might experience an unexpected failure. To mitigate the effects of these possible events, you should duplicate important systems in multiple zones and regions.
For example, by hosting instances in zones
europe-west1-bandeurope-west1-c, ifeurope-west1-bfails unexpectedly, your instances in zoneeurope-west1-cwill still be available. However, if you host all your instances ineurope-west1-b, you will not be able to access any instances ifeurope-west1-bgoes offline. Also, consider hosting your resources across regions. For example, to plan for continued availability of your workload in the unlikely scenario that theeurope-west1region experiences a failure, consider deploying the workload on backup instances in theeurope-west3region. For more tips on how to design systems for availability, see Designing Robust Systems.
Available regions and zones
You can use the Google Cloud console, the Google Cloud CLI, or REST to
see available regions and zones.
You can also use the
gcloud compute machine-types list command
to get a complete list of available machine types in all regions and zones.
For example, gcloud compute machine-types list --filter="name=t2d-standard-4"
displays all the regions and zones where t2d-standard-4 machine types are
available.
Each zone offers a variety of processors. When you create an
instance in a zone, your instance uses the default processor supported in that
zone. For example, if you create an instance in the us-central1-a zone, your
instance by default uses an Intel Haswell processor, unless you specify another
option.
Alternatively, you can choose your desired CPU platform. For more information, read Specifying a minimum CPU platform for VM instances.
Contact your account team to request access to a machine family in a specific region or zone.
The following sortable table lets you select different options to see where
resources are available. For example, you can select Europe from the Select
a location drop-down menu, and C3D from the Select a machine type
drop-down menu to see a list of zones where C3D machines are available in Europe.
| Zones | Location | Machine types | CPUs | Resources | CO2 emissions |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
africa-south1-a |
Johannesburg, South Africa | E2, N2, N2D, T2D | Intel Cascade Lake, Ice Lake, AMD EPYC Rome, AMD EPYC Milan | ||
africa-south1-b |
Johannesburg, South Africa | E2, N2, N2D, T2D | Intel Cascade Lake, Ice Lake, AMD EPYC Rome, AMD EPYC Milan | ||
africa-south1-c |
Johannesburg, South Africa | E2, N2, N2D, T2D | Intel Cascade Lake, Ice Lake, AMD EPYC Rome, AMD EPYC Milan | ||
asia-east1-a |
Changhua County, Taiwan, APAC | E2, N2, N2D, T2D, N1, M1, C2, C2D, G2 | Intel Ivy Bridge, Sandy Bridge, Haswell, Broadwell, Skylake, Cascade Lake, Ice Lake, AMD EPYC Rome, AMD EPYC Milan | GPUs | |
asia-east1-b |
Changhua County, Taiwan, APAC | E2, N2, N2D, T2D, N1, M1, M3, C2, C2D, G2 | Intel Ivy Bridge, Sandy Bridge, Haswell, Broadwell, Skylake, Cascade Lake, Ice Lake, AMD EPYC Rome, AMD EPYC Milan | GPUs | |
asia-east1-c |
Changhua County, Taiwan, APAC | E2, N2, N2D, T2D, N1, M1, M3, C2, C2D, G2 | Intel Ivy Bridge, Sandy Bridge, Haswell, Broadwell, Skylake, Cascade Lake, Ice Lake, AMD EPYC Rome, AMD EPYC Milan | GPUs | |
asia-east2-a |
Hong Kong, APAC | E2, N2, N2D, T2D, N1, C2 | Intel Ivy Bridge, Sandy Bridge, Haswell, Broadwell, Skylake, Cascade Lake, AMD EPYC Rome, AMD EPYC Milan | GPUs | |
asia-east2-b |
Hong Kong, APAC | E2, N2, N2D, T2D, N1, C2 | Intel Ivy Bridge, Sandy Bridge, Haswell, Broadwell, Skylake, Cascade Lake, Ice Lake, AMD EPYC Rome, AMD EPYC Milan | ||
asia-east2-c |
Hong Kong, APAC | E2, N2, N2D, T2D, N1, C2 | Intel Ivy Bridge, Sandy Bridge, Haswell, Broadwell, Skylake, Cascade Lake, Ice Lake, AMD EPYC Rome, AMD EPYC Milan | GPUs | |
asia-northeast1-a |
Tokyo, Japan, APAC | E2, N2, N2D, T2D, N1, M1, M2, C2, A2, G2 | Intel Ivy Bridge, Sandy Bridge, Haswell, Broadwell, Skylake, Cascade Lake, Ice Lake, AMD EPYC Rome, AMD EPYC Milan | GPUs | |
asia-northeast1-b |
Tokyo, Japan, APAC | E2, N2, N2D, T2D, N1, M1, M2, M3, C2, C3, A3, G2 | Intel Ivy Bridge, Sandy Bridge, Haswell, Broadwell, Skylake, Cascade Lake, Ice Lake, Sapphire Rapids, AMD EPYC Rome, AMD EPYC Milan | GPUs | |
asia-northeast1-c |
Tokyo, Japan, APAC | E2, N2, N2D, T2D, N1, M1, C2, A2, G2, A3 | Intel Ivy Bridge, Sandy Bridge, Haswell, Broadwell, Skylake, Cascade Lake, Ice Lake, AMD EPYC Rome, AMD EPYC Milan | GPUs | |
asia-northeast2-a |
Osaka, Japan, APAC | E2, N2, N2D, T2D, N1, M1, C2 | Intel Ivy Bridge, Sandy Bridge, Broadwell, Skylake, Cascade Lake, AMD EPYC Rome, AMD EPYC Milan | ||
asia-northeast2-b |
Osaka, Japan, APAC | E2, N2, N2D, T2D, N1, M1, M2, C2 | Intel Ivy Bridge, Sandy Bridge, Broadwell, Skylake, Cascade Lake, Ice Lake, AMD EPYC Rome, AMD EPYC Milan | ||
asia-northeast2-c |
Osaka, Japan, APAC | E2, N2, N2D, T2D, N1, M1, M2, C2 | Intel Ivy Bridge, Sandy Bridge, Broadwell, Skylake, Cascade Lake, Ice Lake, AMD EPYC Rome, AMD EPYC Milan | ||
asia-northeast3-a |
Seoul, South Korea, APAC | E2, N2, N2D, N1, M1, M2, C2, A3, A2, G2 | Intel Ivy Bridge, Sandy Bridge, Haswell, Broadwell, Skylake, Cascade Lake, Ice Lake, AMD EPYC Rome, AMD EPYC Milan | GPUs | |
asia-northeast3-b |
Seoul, South Korea, APAC | E2, N2, N2D, N1, M1, M2, C2, A2, G2 | Intel Ivy Bridge, Sandy Bridge, Haswell, Broadwell, Skylake, Cascade Lake, Ice Lake, AMD EPYC Rome, AMD EPYC Milan | GPUs | |
asia-northeast3-c |
Seoul, South Korea, APAC | E2, N2, N2D, N1, C2, A3 | Intel Ivy Bridge, Sandy Bridge, Broadwell, Skylake, Cascade Lake, Ice Lake, AMD EPYC Rome, AMD EPYC Milan | GPUs | |
asia-south1-a |
Mumbai, India, APAC | E2, N2, N2D, T2D, N1, M1, M2, C2, C2D, G2 | Intel Ivy Bridge, Sandy Bridge, Haswell, Broadwell, Skylake, Cascade Lake, Ice Lake, AMD EPYC Rome, AMD EPYC Milan | GPUs | |
asia-south1-b |
Mumbai, India, APAC | E2, N2, N2D, T2D, N1, X4, M1, M2, M3, C2, C2D, G2 | Intel Ivy Bridge, Sandy Bridge, Haswell, Broadwell, Skylake, Cascade Lake, Ice Lake, Sapphire Rapids, AMD EPYC Rome, AMD EPYC Milan | GPUs | |
asia-south1-c |
Mumbai, India, APAC | E2, N2, N2D, T2D, N1, X4, M1, M3, C2, C2D, A3, G2 | Intel Ivy Bridge, Sandy Bridge, Haswell, Broadwell, Skylake, Cascade Lake, Ice Lake, Sapphire Rapids, AMD EPYC Rome, AMD EPYC Milan | GPUs | |
asia-south2-a |
Delhi, India, APAC | E2, N2, N2D, T2D, N1, X4, M1, M2, C2 | Intel Ivy Bridge, Haswell, Broadwell, Skylake, Cascade Lake, Ice Lake, Sapphire Rapids, AMD EPYC Rome, AMD EPYC Milan | ||
asia-south2-b |
Delhi, India, APAC | E2, N2, N2D, T2D, N1, M1, M2, M3, C2 | Intel Ivy Bridge, Haswell, Broadwell, Skylake, Cascade Lake, Ice Lake, AMD EPYC Rome, AMD EPYC Milan | ||
asia-south2-c |
Delhi, India, APAC | E2, N2, N2D, T2D, N1, C2 | Intel Ivy Bridge, Haswell, Broadwell, Skylake, Cascade Lake, AMD EPYC Rome, AMD EPYC Milan | ||
asia-southeast1-a |
Jurong West, Singapore, APAC | E2, N4, N2, N2D, C4, C4A, C3, C3D, T2D, N1, M3, M1, C2, C2D, G2 | Intel Ivy Bridge, Sandy Bridge, Haswell, Broadwell, Skylake, Cascade Lake, Ice Lake, Sapphire Rapids, Emerald Rapids, AMD EPYC Rome, AMD EPYC Milan, AMD EPYC Genoa, Google Axion | GPUs | |
asia-southeast1-b |
Jurong West, Singapore, APAC | E2, N4, N2, N2D, C4, C4A, C3, C3D, T2D, T2A, N1, Z3, M3, M1 C2, C2D, A2, A3, G2 | Intel Ivy Bridge, Sandy Bridge, Haswell, Broadwell, Skylake, Cascade Lake, Ice Lake, Sapphire Rapids, Emerald Rapids, AMD EPYC Rome, AMD EPYC Milan, AMD EPYC Genoa, Ampere Altra Arm, Google Axion | GPUs | |
asia-southeast1-c |
Jurong West, Singapore, APAC | E2, N2, N4, N2D, C4A, C3, C3D, T2D, T2A, N1, Z3, M1, C2, C2D, A2, A3, G2 | Intel Ivy Bridge, Sandy Bridge, Haswell, Broadwell, Skylake, Cascade Lake, Ice Lake, Sapphire Rapids, Emerald Rapids, AMD EPYC Rome, AMD EPYC Milan, AMD EPYC Genoa, Ampere Altra Arm, Google Axion | GPUs | |
asia-southeast2-a |
Jakarta, Indonesia, APAC | E2, N2, N2D, T2D, N1, M1 | Intel Ivy Bridge, Haswell, Broadwell, Skylake, Cascade Lake, Ice Lake, AMD EPYC Rome, AMD EPYC Milan | GPUs | |
asia-southeast2-b |
Jakarta, Indonesia, APAC | E2, N2, N2D, T2D, N1 | Intel Ivy Bridge, Haswell, Broadwell, Skylake, Cascade Lake, Ice Lake, AMD EPYC Rome, AMD EPYC Milan | GPUs | |
asia-southeast2-c |
Jakarta, Indonesia, APAC | E2, N2, N2D, T2D, N1, M1 | Intel Ivy Bridge, Haswell, Broadwell, Skylake, Cascade Lake, Ice Lake, AMD EPYC Rome, AMD EPYC Milan | GPUs | |
australia-southeast1-a |
Sydney, Australia, APAC | E2, N2, N2D, T2D, N1, C2, M1, M2 | Intel Ivy Bridge, Sandy Bridge, Haswell, Broadwell, Skylake, Cascade Lake, Ice Lake, AMD EPYC Rome, AMD EPYC Milan | GPUs | |
australia-southeast1-b |
Sydney, Australia, APAC | E2, N2, N2D, T2D, N1, C2, M1, M2 | Intel Ivy Bridge, Sandy Bridge, Haswell, Broadwell, Skylake, Cascade Lake, Ice Lake, AMD EPYC Rome, AMD EPYC Milan | GPUs | |
australia-southeast1-c |
Sydney, Australia, APAC | E2, N2, N2D, T2D, N1, C2, C3, C3D, M1, M3, A3 | Intel Ivy Bridge, Sandy Bridge, Haswell, Broadwell, Skylake, Cascade Lake, Ice Lake, Sapphire Rapids, AMD EPYC Rome, AMD EPYC Milan, AMD EPYC Genoa | GPUs | |
australia-southeast2-a |
Melbourne, Australia, APAC | E2, N2, N2D, T2D, N1 | Intel Ivy Bridge, Haswell, Broadwell, Skylake, Cascade Lake, Ice Lake, AMD EPYC Rome, AMD EPYC Milan | ||
australia-southeast2-b |
Melbourne, Australia, APAC | E2, N2, N1, M1 | Intel Ivy Bridge, Haswell, Broadwell, Skylake, Cascade Lake, Ice Lake | ||
australia-southeast2-c |
Melbourne, Australia, APAC | E2, N2, N2D, T2D, N1, M1 | Intel Ivy Bridge, Haswell, Broadwell, Skylake, Cascade Lake, Ice Lake, AMD EPYC Rome, AMD EPYC Milan | ||
europe-north1-a |
Hamina, Finland, Europe | E2, N2, N2D, T2D, N1, C2, M3 | Intel Ivy Bridge, Sandy Bridge, Broadwell, Skylake, Cascade Lake, Ice Lake, AMD EPYC Rome, AMD EPYC Milan |
 Low CO2
|
|
europe-north1-b |
Hamina, Finland, Europe | E2, N2, N2D, T2D, N1, C2 | Intel Ivy Bridge, Sandy Bridge, Broadwell, Skylake, Cascade Lake, AMD EPYC Rome, AMD EPYC Milan |
Low CO2
|
|
europe-north1-c |
Hamina, Finland, Europe | E2, N2, N2D, T2D, N1, C2, M3 | Intel Ivy Bridge, Sandy Bridge, Broadwell, Skylake, Cascade Lake, Ice Lake, AMD EPYC Rome, AMD EPYC Milan |
Low CO2
|
|
europe-central2-a |
Warsaw, Poland, Europe | E2, N2, N2D, T2D, N1, M1 | Intel Ivy Bridge, Haswell, Broadwell, Skylake, Cascade Lake, Ice Lake, AMD EPYC Rome, AMD EPYC Milan | ||
europe-central2-b |
Warsaw, Poland, Europe | E2, N2, N2D, T2D, N1, M1 | Intel Ivy Bridge, Haswell, Broadwell, Skylake, Cascade Lake, Ice Lake, AMD EPYC Rome, AMD EPYC Milan | GPUs | |
europe-central2-c |
Warsaw, Poland, Europe | E2, N2, N2D, T2D, N1 | Intel Ivy Bridge, Haswell, Broadwell, Skylake, Cascade Lake, Ice Lake, AMD EPYC Rome, AMD EPYC Milan | GPUs | |
europe-southwest1-a |
Madrid, Spain, Europe | E2, N2, N2D, T2D, M1, M3 | Intel Broadwell, Skylake, Cascade Lake, Ice Lake, AMD EPYC Rome, AMD EPYC Milan |
Low CO2
|
|
europe-southwest1-b |
Madrid, Spain, Europe | E2, N2, N2D, T2D | Intel Broadwell, Skylake, Cascade Lake, Ice Lake, AMD EPYC Rome, AMD EPYC Milan |
Low CO2
|
|
europe-southwest1-c |
Madrid, Spain, Europe | E2, N2, N2D, T2D, M1, M3 | Intel Broadwell, Skylake, Cascade Lake, Ice Lake, AMD EPYC Rome, AMD EPYC Milan |
Low CO2
|
|
europe-west1-b |
St. Ghislain, Belgium, Europe | E2, N4, N2, N2D, C4, C4A, C3, C3D, T2D, N1, X4, M1, M2, M3, C2, C2D, A3, G2 | Intel Ivy Bridge, Sandy Bridge, Haswell, Broadwell, Skylake, Cascade Lake, Ice Lake, Sapphire Rapids, Emerald Rapids, AMD EPYC Rome, AMD EPYC Milan, AMD EPYC Genoa, Google Axion | GPUs |
Low CO2
|
europe-west1-c |
St. Ghislain, Belgium, Europe | E2, N4, N2, N2D, C4, C4A, C3, C3D, T2D, N1, X4, M2, C2, C2D, A3, G2 | Intel Ivy Bridge, Sandy Bridge, Haswell, Broadwell, Skylake, Cascade Lake, Ice Lake, Sapphire Rapids, Emerald Rapids, AMD EPYC Rome, AMD EPYC Milan, AMD EPYC Genoa, Google Axion | GPUs |
Low CO2
|
europe-west1-d |
St. Ghislain, Belgium, Europe | E2, N4, N2, N2D, C4A, C3, C3D, T2D, N1, M1, M2, M3, C2, C2D | Intel Ivy Bridge, Sandy Bridge, Haswell, Broadwell, Skylake, Cascade Lake, Ice Lake, Sapphire Rapids, Emerald Rapids, AMD EPYC Rome, AMD EPYC Milan, AMD EPYC Genoa, Google Axion | GPUs |
Low CO2
|
europe-west2-a |
London, England, Europe | E2, N2, N2D, T2D, N1, M1, M2, M3, C2, G2 | Intel Ivy Bridge, Sandy Bridge, Haswell, Broadwell, Skylake, Cascade Lake, Ice Lake, AMD EPYC Rome, AMD EPYC Milan | GPUs |
Low CO2
|
europe-west2-b |
London, England, Europe | E2, N2, N2D, T2D, N1, M1, M2, C2, C2D, A3, G2 | Intel Ivy Bridge, Sandy Bridge, Haswell, Broadwell, Skylake, Cascade Lake, Ice Lake, AMD EPYC Rome, AMD EPYC Milan | GPUs |
Low CO2
|
europe-west2-c |
London, England, Europe | E2, N2, N2D, T2D, N1, M1, M3, C2, C2D, C3 | Intel Ivy Bridge, Sandy Bridge, Haswell, Broadwell, Skylake, Cascade Lake, Ice Lake, Sapphire Rapids, AMD EPYC Rome, AMD EPYC Milan |
Low CO2
|
|
europe-west3-a |
Frankfurt, Germany, Europe | E2, N2, N2D, T2D, N1, M1, M2, M3, C2, C2D, C4A, A3, G2 | Intel Ivy Bridge, Sandy Bridge, Haswell, Broadwell, Skylake, Cascade Lake, Ice Lake, AMD EPYC Rome, AMD EPYC Milan, Google Axion | GPUs |
Low CO2
|
europe-west3-b |
Frankfurt, Germany, Europe | E2, N2, N2D, T2D, N1, M1, M2, M3, C2, C2D, C3, , C4A, G2 | Intel Ivy Bridge, Sandy Bridge, Haswell, Broadwell, Skylake, Cascade Lake, Ice Lake, Sapphire Rapids, AMD EPYC Rome, AMD EPYC Milan, Google Axion | GPUs |
Low CO2
|
europe-west3-c |
Frankfurt, Germany, Europe | E2, N2, N2D, T2D, N1, M1, C2, C2D, C3, C3D, C4A | Intel Ivy Bridge, Sandy Bridge, Haswell, Broadwell, Skylake, Cascade Lake, Ice Lake, Sapphire Rapids, AMD EPYC Rome, AMD EPYC Milan, AMD EPYC Genoa, Google Axion |
Low CO2
|
|
europe-west4-a |
Eemshaven, Netherlands, Europe | E2, N4, N2, N2D, C4, C4A, C3, C3D, T2D, T2A, N1, M3, M2, M1, C2, C2D, A3, A2, G2 | Intel Ivy Bridge, Sandy Bridge, Haswell, Broadwell, Skylake, Cascade Lake, Ice Lake, Sapphire Rapids, Emerald Rapids, AMD EPYC Rome, AMD EPYC Milan, AMD EPYC Genoa, Ampere Altra Arm, Google Axion | GPUs |
Low CO2
|
europe-west4-b |
Eemshaven, Netherlands, Europe | E2, N4, N2, N2D, C4, C4A, C3, C3D, T2D, T2A, N1, Z3, X4, M3, M2, M1, H3, C2, C2D, A3, A2, G2 | Intel Ivy Bridge, Sandy Bridge, Haswell, Broadwell, Skylake, Cascade Lake, Ice Lake, Sapphire Rapids, Emerald Rapids, AMD EPYC Rome, AMD EPYC Milan, AMD EPYC Genoa, Ampere Altra Arm, Google Axion | GPUs |
Low CO2
|
europe-west4-c |
Eemshaven, Netherlands, Europe | E2, N4, N2, N2D, C4, C4A, C3, C3D, T2D, T2A, N1, Z3, X4, M1, M2, C2, C2D, A3, G2 | Intel Ivy Bridge, Sandy Bridge, Haswell, Broadwell, Skylake, Cascade Lake, Ice Lake, Sapphire Rapids, Emerald Rapids, AMD EPYC Rome, AMD EPYC Milan, AMD EPYC Genoa, Ampere Altra Arm, Google Axion | GPUs |
Low CO2
|
europe-west6-a |
Zurich, Switzerland, Europe | E2, N2, N1, C2 | Intel Ivy Bridge, Sandy Bridge, Haswell, Broadwell, Skylake, Cascade Lake, Ice Lake |
Low CO2
|
|
europe-west6-b |
Zurich, Switzerland, Europe | E2, N2, N2D, T2D, N1, M1, C2, G2 | Intel Ivy Bridge, Sandy Bridge, Haswell, Broadwell, Skylake, Cascade Lake, Ice Lake, AMD EPYC Rome, AMD EPYC Milan | GPUs |
Low CO2
|
europe-west6-c |
Zurich, Switzerland, Europe | E2, N2, N2D, T2D, N1, M1, C2, G2 | Intel Ivy Bridge, Sandy Bridge, Haswell, Broadwell, Skylake, Cascade Lake, Ice Lake, AMD EPYC Rome, AMD EPYC Milan | GPUs |
Low CO2
|
europe-west8-a |
Milan, Italy, Europe | E2, N2, N2D, T2D, X4, M1, M2, M3 | Intel Broadwell, Skylake, Cascade Lake, Ice Lake, Sapphire Rapids, AMD EPYC Rome, AMD EPYC Milan | ||
europe-west8-b |
Milan, Italy, Europe | E2, N2, N2D, T2D | Intel Broadwell, Skylake, Cascade Lake, AMD EPYC Rome, AMD EPYC Milan | ||
europe-west8-c |
Milan, Italy, Europe | E2, N2, N2D, T2D, X4, M1, M2, M3, A3 | Intel Broadwell, Skylake, Cascade Lake, Ice Lake, Sapphire Rapids, AMD EPYC Rome, AMD EPYC Milan | GPUs | |
europe-west9-a |
Paris, France, Europe | E2, N2, N2D, T2D, M3 | Intel Broadwell, Skylake, Cascade Lake, Ice Lake, AMD EPYC Rome, AMD EPYC Milan |
Low CO2
|
|
europe-west9-b |
Paris, France, Europe | E2, N2, N2D, T2D, M1, M3 | Intel Broadwell, Haswell, Skylake, Cascade Lake, Ice Lake, AMD EPYC Rome, AMD EPYC Milan |
Low CO2
|
|
europe-west9-c |
Paris, France, Europe | E2, N2, N2D, T2D, M1, A3 | Intel Broadwell, Haswell, Skylake, Cascade Lake, Ice Lake, AMD EPYC Rome, AMD EPYC Milan | GPUs |
Low CO2
|
europe-west10-a |
Berlin, Germany, Europe | E2, N2, N2D, T2D | Intel Broadwell, Skylake, Cascade Lake, Ice Lake, AMD EPYC Rome, AMD EPYC Milan | ||
europe-west10-b |
Berlin, Germany, Europe | E2, N2, N2D, T2D | Intel Cascade Lake, Ice Lake, AMD EPYC Rome, AMD EPYC Milan | ||
europe-west10-c |
Berlin, Germany, Europe | E2, N2, N2D, T2D | Intel Broadwell, Skylake, Cascade Lake, Ice Lake, AMD EPYC Rome, AMD EPYC Milan | ||
europe-west12-a |
Turin, Italy, Europe | E2, N2, N2D, T2D, M3 | Intel Broadwell, Skylake, Cascade Lake, Ice Lake, AMD EPYC Rome, AMD EPYC Milan | ||
europe-west12-b |
Turin, Italy, Europe | E2, N2, N2D, T2D, M3, A3 | Intel Broadwell, Skylake, Cascade Lake, Ice Lake, AMD EPYC Rome, AMD EPYC Milan | GPUs | |
europe-west12-c |
Turin, Italy, Europe | E2, N2, N2D, T2D | Intel Broadwell, Skylake, Cascade Lake, AMD EPYC Rome, AMD EPYC Milan | ||
northamerica-northeast1-a |
Montréal, Québec, North America | E2, N2, N2D, T2D, N1, C2 | Intel Ivy Bridge, Sandy Bridge, Haswell, Broadwell, Skylake, Cascade Lake, Ice Lake, AMD EPYC Rome, AMD EPYC Milan | GPUs |
Low CO2
|
northamerica-northeast1-b |
Montréal, Québec, North America | E2, N2, N2D, T2D, N1, M1, M2, M3, C2, C3 | Intel Ivy Bridge, Sandy Bridge, Haswell, Broadwell, Skylake, Cascade Lake, Ice Lake, Sapphire Rapids, AMD EPYC Rome, AMD EPYC Milan | GPUs |
Low CO2
|
northamerica-northeast1-c |
Montréal, Québec, North America | E2, N2, N2D, T2D, N1, M1, M2, M3, C2 | Intel Ivy Bridge, Sandy Bridge, Haswell, Broadwell, Skylake, Cascade Lake, Ice Lake, AMD EPYC Rome, AMD EPYC Milan | GPUs |
Low CO2
|
northamerica-northeast2-a |
Toronto, Ontario, North America | E2, N2, N2D, T2D, N1, M1, M2, M3, G2 | Intel Ivy Bridge, Haswell, Broadwell, Skylake, Cascade Lake, Ice Lake, AMD EPYC Rome, AMD EPYC Milan | GPUs |
Low CO2
|
northamerica-northeast2-b |
Toronto, Ontario, North America | E2, N2, N2D, T2D, N1, M1, M2, M3 | Intel Ivy Bridge, Haswell, Broadwell, Skylake, Cascade Lake, Ice Lake, AMD EPYC Rome, AMD EPYC Milan |
Low CO2
|
|
northamerica-northeast2-c |
Toronto, Ontario, North America | E2, N2, N2D, T2D, N1, A3 | Intel Ivy Bridge, Haswell, Broadwell, Skylake, Cascade Lake, Ice Lake, AMD EPYC Rome, AMD EPYC Milan | GPUs |
Low CO2
|
southamerica-east1-a |
Osasco, São Paulo, Brazil, South America | E2, N2, N2D, T2D, N1, C2 | Intel Ivy Bridge, Sandy Bridge, Haswell, Broadwell, Skylake, Cascade Lake, Ice Lake, AMD EPYC Rome, AMD EPYC Milan | GPUs |
Low CO2
|
southamerica-east1-b |
Osasco, São Paulo, Brazil, South America | E2, N2, N2D, T2D, N1, M1, M2, M3, C2 | Intel Ivy Bridge, Sandy Bridge, Haswell, Broadwell, Skylake, Cascade Lake, Ice Lake, AMD EPYC Rome, AMD EPYC Milan |
Low CO2
|
|
southamerica-east1-c |
Osasco, São Paulo, Brazil, South America | E2, N2, N2D, T2D, N1, M1, M2, M3, C2 | Intel Ivy Bridge, Sandy Bridge, Haswell, Broadwell, Skylake, Cascade Lake, Ice Lake, AMD EPYC Rome, AMD EPYC Milan | GPUs |
Low CO2
|
southamerica-west1-a |
Santiago, Chile, South America | E2, N2, C2 | Intel Broadwell, Haswell, Skylake, Cascade Lake |
Low CO2
|
|
southamerica-west1-b |
Santiago, Chile, South America | E2, N2, N2D, T2D, M1, M2, C2 | Intel Broadwell, Haswell, Skylake, Cascade Lake, Ice Lake, AMD EPYC Rome, AMD EPYC Milan |
Low CO2
|
|
southamerica-west1-c |
Santiago, Chile, South America | E2, N2, M1, M2, M3, C2 | Intel Broadwell, Haswell, Skylake, Cascade Lake, Ice Lake |
Low CO2
|
|
us-central1-a |
Council Bluffs, Iowa, North America | E2, N4, N2, N2D, C4, C4A, C3, C3D, T2D, T2A, N1, Z3, X4, M3, M2, M1, H3, C2, C2D, A3, A2, G2 | Intel Ivy Bridge, Sandy Bridge, Haswell, Broadwell, Skylake, Cascade Lake, Ice Lake, Sapphire Rapids, Emerald Rapids, AMD EPYC Rome, AMD EPYC Milan, AMD EPYC Genoa, Ampere Altra Arm, Google Axion | GPUs |
Low CO2
|
us-central1-b |
Council Bluffs, Iowa, North America | E2, N2, N2D, C4, C4A, C3, C3D, T2D, T2A, N1, M3, M2, M1, C2, C2D, A2, A3, G2 | Intel Ivy Bridge, Sandy Bridge, Haswell, Broadwell, Skylake, Cascade Lake, Ice Lake, Sapphire Rapids, AMD EPYC Rome, AMD EPYC Milan, AMD EPYC Genoa, Ampere Altra Arm, Google Axion | GPUs |
Low CO2
|
us-central1-c |
Council Bluffs, Iowa, North America | E2, N4, N2, N2D, C4, C4A, C3, C3D, T2D, N1, Z3, X4, M1, M2, M3, C2, C2D, A3, A2, G2 | Intel Ivy Bridge, Sandy Bridge, Haswell, Broadwell, Skylake, Cascade Lake, Ice Lake, Sapphire Rapids, Emerald Rapids, AMD EPYC Rome, AMD EPYC Milan, AMD EPYC Genoa, Google Axion | GPUs |
Low CO2
|
us-central1-f |
Council Bluffs, Iowa, North America | E2, N2, N2D, T2D, T2A, N1, M1, C2, C2D, C3, A2 | Intel Ivy Bridge, Sandy Bridge, Haswell, Broadwell, Skylake, Cascade Lake, Ice Lake, Sapphire Rapids, AMD EPYC Rome, AMD EPYC Milan, Ampere Altra Arm | GPUs |
Low CO2
|
us-east1-b |
Moncks Corner, South Carolina, North America | E2, N4, N2, N2D, C4, C4A, C3, C3D, T2D, N1, M1, M3, C2, C2D, A2, G2 | Intel Ivy Bridge, Sandy Bridge, Haswell, Broadwell, Skylake, Cascade Lake, Ice Lake, Sapphire Rapids, Emerald Rapids, AMD EPYC Rome, AMD EPYC Milan, AMD EPYC Genoa, Google Axion | GPUs | |
us-east1-c |
Moncks Corner, South Carolina, North America | E2, N4, N2, N2D, C4, C4A, C3, C3D, T2D, N1, M1, C2, C2D, G2 | Intel Ivy Bridge, Sandy Bridge, Haswell, Broadwell, Skylake, Cascade Lake, Ice Lake, Sapphire Rapids, Emerald Rapids, AMD EPYC Rome, AMD EPYC Milan, AMD EPYC Genoa, Google Axion | GPUs | |
us-east1-d |
Moncks Corner, South Carolina, North America | E2, N4, N2, N2D, C4, C4A, C3, C3D, T2D, N1, M1, M3, C2, C2D, G2 | Intel Ivy Bridge, Sandy Bridge, Haswell, Broadwell, Skylake, Cascade Lake, Ice Lake, Sapphire Rapids, Emerald Rapids, AMD EPYC Rome, AMD EPYC Milan, AMD EPYC Genoa, Google Axion | GPUs | |
us-east4-a |
Ashburn, Virginia, North America | E2, N4, N2, N2D, C4, C4A, C3, C3D, T2D, N1, X4, M1, M2, M3, C2, C2D, A3, G2 | Intel Ivy Bridge, Sandy Bridge, Haswell, Broadwell, Skylake, Cascade Lake, Ice Lake, Sapphire Rapids, Emerald Rapids, AMD EPYC Rome, AMD EPYC Milan, AMD EPYC Genoa, Google Axion | GPUs | |
us-east4-b |
Ashburn, Virginia, North America | E2, N4, N2, N2D, C4, C4A, C3, C3D, T2D, N1, M1, M2, M3, C2, C2D, A3 | Intel Ivy Bridge, Sandy Bridge, Haswell, Broadwell, Skylake, Cascade Lake, Ice Lake, Sapphire Rapids, Emerald Rapids, AMD EPYC Rome, AMD EPYC Milan, AMD EPYC Genoa, Google Axion | GPUs | |
us-east4-c |
Ashburn, Virginia, North America | E2, N4, N2, N2D, C4, C4A, C3, C3D, T2D, N1, X4, M1, C2, C2D, A2, A3 | Intel Ivy Bridge, Sandy Bridge, Haswell, Broadwell, Skylake, Cascade Lake, Ice Lake, Sapphire Rapids, Emerald Rapids, AMD EPYC Rome, AMD EPYC Milan, AMD EPYC Genoa, Google Axion | GPUs | |
us-east5-a |
Columbus, Ohio, North America | E2, N2, N2D, T2D, C2, C3, A3 | Intel Broadwell, Haswell, Skylake, Cascade Lake, Ice Lake, Sapphire Rapids, AMD EPYC Rome, AMD EPYC Milan | GPUs | |
us-east5-b |
Columbus, Ohio, North America | E2, N2, N2D, T2D, C2, C3 | Intel Broadwell, Haswell, Skylake, Cascade Lake, Sapphire Rapids, AMD EPYC Rome, AMD EPYC Milan | GPUs | |
us-east5-c |
Columbus, Ohio, North America | E2, N2, N2D, T2D, C2 | Intel Broadwell, Haswell, Skylake, Cascade Lake, AMD EPYC Rome, AMD EPYC Milan | ||
us-west1-a |
The Dalles, Oregon, North America | E2, N2, N2D, T2D, N1, M1, M3, C2, C2D, C3, A3, G2 | Intel Ivy Bridge, Sandy Bridge, Haswell, Broadwell, Skylake, Cascade Lake, Ice Lake, Sapphire Rapids, AMD EPYC Rome, AMD EPYC Milan | GPUs |
Low CO2 |
us-west1-b |
The Dalles, Oregon, North America | E2, N2, N2D, T2D, N1, C2, C2D, C3, M1, M3, A3, G2 | Intel Ivy Bridge, Sandy Bridge, Haswell, Broadwell, Skylake, Cascade Lake, Ice Lake, Sapphire Rapids, AMD EPYC Rome, AMD EPYC Milan | GPUs |
Low CO2 |
us-west1-c |
The Dalles, Oregon, North America | E2, N2, N2D, T2D, N1, C2, C2D, G2 | Intel Ivy Bridge, Sandy Bridge, Haswell, Broadwell, Skylake, Cascade Lake, Ice Lake, AMD EPYC Rome, AMD EPYC Milan | GPUs |
Low CO2 |
us-west2-a |
Los Angeles, California, North America | E2, N2, N2D, T2D, N1, C2, C3 | Intel Ivy Bridge, Sandy Bridge, Haswell, Broadwell, Skylake, Cascade Lake, Ice Lake, Sapphire Rapids, AMD EPYC Rome, AMD EPYC Milan | ||
us-west2-b |
Los Angeles, California, North America | E2, N2, N2D, T2D, N1, M1, C2 | Intel Ivy Bridge, Sandy Bridge, Haswell, Broadwell, Skylake, Cascade Lake, Ice Lake, AMD EPYC Rome, AMD EPYC Milan | GPUs | |
us-west2-c |
Los Angeles, California, North America | E2, N2, N2D, N1, M1, C2 | Intel Ivy Bridge, Sandy Bridge, Haswell, Broadwell, Skylake, Cascade Lake, Ice Lake, AMD EPYC Rome, AMD EPYC Milan | GPUs | |
us-west3-a |
Salt Lake City, Utah, North America | E2, N2, N2D, T2D, N1, C2 | Intel Ivy Bridge, Sandy Bridge, Broadwell, Skylake, Cascade Lake, Ice Lake, AMD EPYC Rome, AMD EPYC Milan | ||
us-west3-b |
Salt Lake City, Utah, North America | E2, N2, N2D, T2D, N1, C2, A2 | Intel Ivy Bridge, Sandy Bridge, Broadwell, Skylake, Cascade Lake, Ice Lake, AMD EPYC Rome, AMD EPYC Milan | GPUs | |
us-west3-c |
Salt Lake City, Utah, North America | E2, N2, N2D, T2D, N1, C2 | Intel Ivy Bridge, Sandy Bridge, Broadwell, Skylake, Cascade Lake, Ice Lake, AMD EPYC Rome, AMD EPYC Milan | ||
us-west4-a |
Las Vegas, Nevada, North America | E2, N2, N2D, T2D, N1, C2, C2D, C3, C3D, M1, M2, M3, A3, G2 | Intel Ivy Bridge, Broadwell, Skylake, Cascade Lake, Ice Lake, Sapphire Rapids, AMD EPYC Rome, AMD EPYC Milan, AMD EPYC Genoa | GPUs | |
us-west4-b |
Las Vegas, Nevada, North America | E2, N2, N2D, N1, C2, C2D, T2D, M1, M2, M3, A2 | Intel Ivy Bridge, Broadwell, Skylake, Cascade Lake, Ice Lake, AMD EPYC Rome, AMD EPYC Milan | GPUs | |
us-west4-c |
Las Vegas, Nevada, North America | E2, N2, N2D, T2D, N1, C2, C2D, C3, G2 | Intel Ivy Bridge, Broadwell, Skylake, Cascade Lake, Ice Lake, Sapphire Rapids, AMD EPYC Rome, AMD EPYC Milan | GPUs | |
us-south1-a |
Dallas, Texas, North America | E2, N2, N2D, T2D, C3 | Intel Broadwell, Haswell, Skylake, Cascade Lake, Ice Lake, Sapphire Rapids, AMD EPYC Rome, AMD EPYC Milan |
Low CO2
|
|
us-south1-b |
Dallas, Texas, North America | E2, N2, C3 | Intel Broadwell, Haswell, Skylake, Cascade Lake, Sapphire Rapids |
Low CO2
|
|
us-south1-c |
Dallas, Texas, North America | E2, N2 | Intel Broadwell, Haswell, Skylake, Cascade Lake |
Low CO2
|
|
me-central1-a |
Doha, Qatar, Middle East | E2, N2 | Intel Broadwell, Haswell, Ivy Bridge, Skylake, Cascade Lake, Ice Lake | ||
me-central1-b |
Doha, Qatar, Middle East | E2, N2, N2D, T2D, M3 | Intel Broadwell, Haswell, Ivy Bridge, Skylake, Cascade Lake, Ice Lake, AMD EPYC Rome, AMD EPYC Milan | ||
me-central1-c |
Doha, Qatar, Middle East | E2, N2, N2D, T2D, M3 | Intel Broadwell, Haswell, Ivy Bridge, Skylake, Cascade Lake, Ice Lake, AMD EPYC Rome, AMD EPYC Milan | ||
me-central2-a |
Dammam, Saudi Arabia, Middle East | E2, N2, N2D, T2D, M3, G2 | Intel Broadwell, Haswell, Cascade Lake, Ice Lake, AMD EPYC Rome, AMD EPYC Milan | GPUs | |
me-central2-b |
Dammam, Saudi Arabia, Middle East | E2, N2, N2D, T2D, C2 | Intel Broadwell, Haswell, Ivy Bridge, Cascade Lake, Ice Lake, AMD EPYC Rome, AMD EPYC Milan | ||
me-central2-c |
Dammam, Saudi Arabia, Middle East | E2, N2, N2D, T2D, M2, M3, C2 | Intel Broadwell, Haswell, Ivy Bridge, Cascade Lake, Ice Lake, AMD EPYC Rome, AMD EPYC Milan | ||
me-west1-a |
Tel Aviv, Israel, Middle East | E2, N2, N2D, T2D, M1, M3, C2 | Intel Broadwell, Haswell, Skylake, Cascade Lake, Ice Lake, AMD EPYC Rome, AMD EPYC Milan | ||
me-west1-b |
Tel Aviv, Israel, Middle East | E2, N2, N2D, T2D, C2, A2, N1GPU required |
Intel Broadwell, Haswell, Ivy Bridge, Skylake, Cascade Lake, Ice Lake, AMD EPYC Rome, AMD EPYC Milan | GPUs | |
me-west1-c |
Tel Aviv, Israel, Middle East | E2, N2, N2D, T2D, M1, M3, C2, A2, N1GPU required | Intel Broadwell, Haswell, Ivy Bridge, Skylake, Cascade Lake, Ice Lake, AMD EPYC Rome, AMD EPYC Milan | GPUs |
*GPU required: To use an N1 machine
type in any of the supported me-west1 zones, you must attach at least one
NVIDIA T4 GPU to the VM.
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