Cloud Location Finder is a public API that offers a repository of all Google Cloud and Google Distributed Cloud locations, as well as cloud locations for other cloud providers.
What Cloud Location Finder provides
Cloud Location Finder provides a cloud location repository for cloud locations across providers. It automatically updates its locations to prevent issues with outdated, hard-coded lists.
With Cloud Location Finder, you can do the following:
- Identify locations to deploy workloads that are close to existing workloads
- Filter for locations within a designated country for compliance reasons
- Sort locations based on their carbon footprint
You can identify cloud locations based on the following filters. For more information about how to use these filters, see Query and filter syntax for Cloud Location Finder.
| Cloud location filtering type | Description |
|---|---|
| Proximity | Deploy workloads in locations that minimize latency between endpoints across cloud providers. Proximity is based on network latency. Cloud Location Finder measures network latency as the round-trip time between a pair of locations. The nearest location to a given source location is based on network latency observed between a pair of locations. |
| Territory code | Identify relevant territories for compliance requirements. Cloud Location Finder uses ISO 3166 country codes to identify locations. The code associated with a location helps you determine whether a location meets security, tax, data regulatory, or other requirements. |
| Carbon free energy (CFE) usage | Minimize the carbon footprint of your applications to meet sustainability goals. Cloud Location Finder measures a location's carbon footprint using Google Cloud's CFE consumption data. Carbon footprint data is available only for Google Cloud locations. |
| Cloud provider | Find the nearest location across each cloud provider you use. |
| Cloud region or zone | Drill down within a region to find location information about specific zones. |
Supported locations
Cloud Location Finder includes public locations from each of these location sources:
Google Cloud public regions and zones
Google Distributed Cloud infrastructure
Amazon Web Services public local zones
Microsoft Azure geographies
Oracle Cloud Infrastructure public regions and availability domains
Location sorting
In the Google Cloud CLI, the list
command sorts by both CFE and cloud location ID. The
search command sorts by proximity,
CFE%, and cloud location ID.
Results for proximity use an ascending sort, meaning the smallest distance appears first. Results for CFE% use a descending sort, meaning the largest CFE% appears first.
Cloud Location Finder includes latency data between Google Cloud locations and locations for other cloud providers. It doesn't have latency data between Google Cloud locations or across two cloud providers that aren't Google Cloud.