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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outdated, hard-coded lists.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
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
two-letter ISO 3166-1 alpha-2
codes to identify locations. Filtering locations by territory code helps you
determine whether a location meets security, tax, data regulatory, or other
requirements. To see the list of country codes, visit the
ISO Online Browsing Platform.
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:
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.
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