Data residency

This document describes data residency and machine learning (ML) processing locations for Generative AI on Vertex AI. It covers the following topics:

Data storage location

When you use Generative AI on Vertex AI, your data at rest is stored in the location that you select. The endpoint you use for the request doesn't affect the storage location of your data.

ML processing

When you make a request to a Generative AI on Vertex AI service, the machine learning (ML) processing for that request occurs in the specific region or multi-region where you made the request.

ML processing for Google Cloud models

United States

Model name US multi-region
Gemini 2.5 Flash-Lite (gemini-2.5-flash-lite)
Gemini 2.5 Pro (gemini-2.5-pro)
Gemini 2.5 Flash (gemini-2.5-flash)
Gemini 2.0 Flash (gemini-2.0-flash)
Gemini 2.0 Flash-Lite (gemini-2.0-flash-lite)
Tuning for Gemini 2.5 Flash (gemini-2.5-flash)
Tuning for Gemini 2.0 Flash (gemini-2.0-flash-001)
Tuning for Gemini 2.0 Flash-Lite (gemini-2.0-flash-lite-001)
Gemini 1.5 Flash (gemini-1.5-flash-002)
Gemini 1.5 Pro (gemini-1.5-pro-002)
Tuning for Gemini 1.5 Flash (gemini-1.5-flash-002)
Tuning for Gemini 1.5 Pro (gemini-1.5-pro-002)
Gemini Embeddings (gemini-embedding-001)
Embeddings for Text (text-embedding-004)
Embeddings for Text (text-embedding-005)
Embeddings for Text (text-multilingual-embedding-002)
Embeddings for Multimodal
Imagen 2 (imagegeneration@005)

Canada

Model name Montréal (northamerica-northeast1)
Gemini 2.5 Flash-Lite (gemini-2.5-flash-lite)
Gemini 2.5 Pro (gemini-2.5-pro)
Gemini 2.5 Flash , 1M only (gemini-2.5-flash)
Gemini 2.0 Flash (gemini-2.0-flash)
Gemini 2.0 Flash-Lite (gemini-2.0-flash-lite)
Gemini 1.5 Pro (gemini-1.5-pro-002, 32k only)
Gemini 1.5 Flash (gemini-1.5-flash-002, 32k only)
Tuning for Gemini 1.5 Pro (gemini-1.0-pro-002)
Tuning for Gemini 1.5 Flash (gemini-1.5-flash-002)
Gemini Embeddings (gemini-embedding-001)
Embeddings for Text (text-embedding-004)
Embeddings for Text (text-embedding-005)
Embeddings for Text (text-multilingual-embedding-002)
Embeddings for Multimodal
Imagen 2 (imagegeneration@005)

Europe

EU multi-region London, United Kingdom (europe-west2) Frankfurt, Germany (europe-west3)
Gemini 2.5 Flash, 1M only (gemini-2.5-flash)
Gemini 2.5 Flash, 128k only (gemini-2.5-flash)
Tuning for Gemini 2.5 Flash (gemini-2.5-flash)
Gemini 2.5 Pro (gemini-2.5-pro)
Gemini 2.5 Flash-Lite (gemini-2.5-flash-lite)
Gemini 2.0 Flash (gemini-2.0-flash-001)
Tuning for Gemini 2.0 Flash (gemini-2.0-flash-001)
Gemini 2.0 Flash-Lite (gemini-2.0-flash-lite-001)
Tuning for Gemini 2.0 Flash-Lite (gemini-2.0-flash-lite-001)
Gemini 1.5 Pro (gemini-1.5-pro-002)
Gemini 1.5 Pro (gemini-1.5-pro-001)
Gemini 1.5 Flash (gemini-1.5-flash-002)
Gemini 1.5 Flash (gemini-1.5-flash-002, 32k only)
Gemini 1.5 Flash (gemini-1.5-flash-001)
Tuning for Gemini 1.5 Pro (gemini-1.0-pro-002)
Tuning for Gemini 1.5 Flash (gemini-1.5-flash-002)
Gemini Embeddings (gemini-embedding-001)
Embeddings for Text (text-embedding-004)
Embeddings for Text (text-embedding-005)
Embeddings for Text (text-multilingual-embedding-002)
Embeddings for Multimodal
Imagen 2 (imagegeneration@005)

Asia Pacific

Tokyo, Japan (asia-northeast1) Sydney, Australia (australia-southeast1) Mumbai, India (asia-south1) Singapore (asia-southeast1) Seoul, Korea (asia-northeast3)
Gemini 2.5 Flash, 1M only (gemini-2.5-flash)
Gemini 2.5 Flash, 128k only (gemini-2.5-flash)
Gemini 2.5 Pro (gemini-2.5-pro)
Gemini 2.5 Flash-Lite (gemini-2.5-flash-lite)
Gemini 2.0 Flash (gemini-2.0-flash-001)
Gemini 2.0 Flash-Lite (gemini-2.0-flash-lite-001)
Gemini 1.5 Pro (gemini-1.5-pro-002)
Gemini 1.5 Pro (gemini-1.5-pro-001)
Gemini 1.5 Flash (gemini-1.5-flash-002, 32k only)
Gemini 1.5 Flash (gemini-1.5-flash-002, 128k only)
Gemini 1.5 Flash (gemini-1.5-flash-001)
Tuning for Gemini 1.5 Pro (gemini-1.0-pro-002)
Tuning for Gemini 1.5 Flash (gemini-1.5-flash-002)
Gemini Embeddings (gemini-embedding-001)
Embeddings for Text (text-embedding-004)
Embeddings for Text (text-embedding-005)
Embeddings for Text (text-multilingual-embedding-002)
Embeddings for Multimodal
Imagen 2 (imagegeneration@005)

ML processing for Google Cloud partner models

United States

US multi-region
Anthropic's Claude Opus 4.1
Anthropic's Claude Opus 4
Anthropic's Claude Sonnet 4
Anthropic's Claude 3.7 Sonnet
Anthropic's Claude 3.5 Sonnet v2
Anthropic's Claude 3.5 Sonnet
Anthropic's Claude 3.5 Haiku
Anthropic's Claude 3 Haiku
DeepSeek-R1-0528
Llama 4 Maverick 17B-128E (Preview)
Llama 4 Scout 17B-16E (Preview)
Llama 3.3 70B (Preview)
Llama 3.2 90B (Preview)
Llama 3.1 405B
Llama 3.1 70B (Preview)
Llama 3.1 8B (Preview)
Mistral OCR (25.05)
Mistral Small 3.1 (25.03)
Mistral Large
Codestral
Jamba 1.5 Large (Preview)
Jamba 1.5 Mini (Preview)

Europe

EU multi-region Belgium (europe-west1) Netherlands (europe-west4)
Anthropic's Claude Opus 4.1
Anthropic's Claude Opus 4
Anthropic's Claude Sonnet 4
Anthropic's Claude 3.7 Sonnet
Anthropic's Claude 3.5 Sonnet v2
Anthropic's Claude 3.5 Sonnet
Anthropic's Claude 3.5 Haiku
Anthropic's Claude 3 Haiku
DeepSeek-R1-0528
Llama 4 Maverick 17B-128E (Preview)
Llama 4 Scout 17B-16E (Preview)
Llama 3.3 70B (Preview)
Llama 3.2 90B (Preview)
Llama 3.1 405B
Llama 3.1 70B (Preview)
Llama 3.1 8B (Preview)
Mistral OCR (25.05)
Mistral Small 3.1 (25.03)
Mistral Large
Codestral
Jamba 1.5 Large (Preview)
Jamba 1.5 Mini (Preview)

Asia Pacific

Singapore (asia-southeast1) Taiwan (asia-east1)
Anthropic's Claude Opus 4.1
Anthropic's Claude Opus 4
Anthropic's Claude Sonnet 4
Anthropic's Claude 3.7 Sonnet
Anthropic's Claude 3.5 Sonnet v2
Anthropic's Claude 3.5 Sonnet
Anthropic's Claude 3.5 Haiku
Anthropic's Claude 3 Opus
Anthropic's Claude 3 Haiku
DeepSeek-R1-0528
Llama 4 Maverick 17B-128E (Preview)
Llama 4 Scout 17B-16E (Preview)
Llama 3.3 70B (Preview)
Llama 3.2 90B (Preview)
Llama 3.1 405B
Llama 3.1 70B (Preview)
Llama 3.1 8B (Preview)
Mistral OCR (25.05)
Mistral Small 3.1 (25.03)
Mistral Large
Codestral
Jamba 1.5 Large (Preview)
Jamba 1.5 Mini (Preview)

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