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Certain Compute Engine resources live in regions or zones. A region is aspecific geographical location where you can run your resources. Each region hasone or more zones; most regions have three or more zones. For example,the us-central1 region denotes a region in theCentral United States that has zones us-central1-a, us-central1-b,us-central1-c, and us-central1-f.
Resources that live in a zone, such as instances or persistent disks, arereferred to as zonal resources. Other resources, like static external IPaddresses, are regional. Regional resources can be used by any resources in thatregion, regardless of zone, while zonal resources can only be used by otherresources in the same zone.
For example, disks and instances are both zonal resources. To attach a disk toan instance, both resources must be in the same zone. Similarly, if you want toassign a static IP address to an instance, the instance must be in the sameregion as the static IP.
Only certain resources are region- or zone-specific. Other resources, such asimages, are global resources that can be used by any other resources across anylocation. For information on global, regional, and zonal Compute Engineresources, seeGlobal, Regional, and Zonal Resources.
The following table describes the regions and their associated zones. See theAvailable regions & zones section for a complete descriptionof a zone's available machine types and features.
Region | Zones | Location |
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asia-east1 | a, b, c | Changhua County, Taiwan |
asia-east2 | a, b, c | Hong Kong |
asia-northeast1 | a, b, c | Tokyo, Japan |
asia-northeast2 | a, b, c | Osaka, Japan |
asia-south1 | a, b, c | Mumbai, India |
asia-southeast1 | a, b, c | Jurong West, Singapore |
australia-southeast1 | a, b, c | Sydney, Australia |
europe-north1 | a, b, c | Hamina, Finland |
europe-west1 | b, c, d | St. Ghislain, Belgium |
europe-west2 | a, b, c | London, England, UK |
europe-west3 | a, b, c | Frankfurt, Germany |
europe-west4 | a, b, c | Eemshaven, Netherlands |
europe-west6 | a, b, c | Zürich, Switzerland |
northamerica-northeast1 | a, b, c | Montréal, Québec, Canada |
southamerica-east1 | a, b, c | São Paulo, Brazil |
us-central1 | a, b, c, f | Council Bluffs, Iowa, USA |
us-east1 | b, c, d | Moncks Corner, South Carolina, USA |
us-east4 | a, b, c | Ashburn, Northern Virginia, USA |
us-west1 | a, b, c | The Dalles, Oregon, USA |
us-west2 | a, b, c | Los Angeles, California, USA |
Choosing a region and zone
You choose which region or zone hosts your resources, which controls where yourdata is stored and used. Choosing a region and zone is important for severalreasons:
- Handling failures
- Distribute your resources across multiple zones and regionsto tolerate outages. Google designs zones to be independent from each other:a zone usually has power, cooling, networking, and control planes that areisolated from other zones, and most single failure events will affectonly a single zone. Thus, if a zone becomes unavailable, you cantransfer traffic to another zone in the same region to keep your servicesrunning. Similarly, if a region experiencesany disturbances, you should have backup services running in a differentregion. For more information about distributing your resources and designing arobust system, see Designing Robust Systems.
- Decreased network latency
- To decrease network latency, you might want to choose a region or zone that isclose to your point of service. For example, if you mostly have customers onthe East Coast of the US, then you might want to choose a primary region andzone that is close to that area and a backup region and zone that is alsoclose by.
Identifying a region or zone
Each region in Compute Engine contains a number of zones. Each zone namecontains two parts that describe each zone in detail. The first part of the zonename is the region and the second part of the name describes the zone inthe region:
Region
Regions are collections of zones. Zones have high-bandwidth,low-latency network connections to other zones in the same region. In orderto deploy fault-tolerant applications that have high availability, Googlerecommends deploying applications across multiple zones and multiple regions.This helps protect against unexpected failures of components, up to andincluding a single zone or region.
Choose regions that makes sense for your scenario. For example, if youonly have customers in the US, or if you have specific needs that requireyour data to live in the US, it makes sense to store your resources inzones in the us-central1 region or zones in the us-east1 region.
Zone
A zone is an isolated location within a region. Thefully-qualified name for a zone is made up of <region>-<zone>
. Forexample, the fully-qualified name for zone a
in region us-central1
isus-central1-a
.
Depending on how widely you want to distribute your resources, createinstances across multiple zones in multiple regions for redundancy.
Available regions & zones
The following table lists the region, its location, the available zones in thatregion, and the features available in that region.
Each zone supports a combination of Ivy Bridge, Sandy Bridge, Haswell,Broadwell, and Skylake platforms. When you create an instancein the zone, your instance will use the default processor supported in thatzone. For example, if you create an instance in the us-central1-a
zone, yourinstance will use a Sandy Bridge processor.
Alternatively, you can choose your desired CPU platform if you'd like. For moreinformation, readSpecifying a Minimum CPU Platform for VM Instances.
Region Name | Region Description | Location | Zones | Features |
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asia-east1 | Taiwan | Changhua County, Taiwan | asia-east1-a | - Available CPU platforms:
- Intel Xeon E5 v2 (Ivy Bridge) platform
- Intel Xeon E5 v4 (Broadwell) platform (default)
- Intel Xeon (Skylake) platform
- Up to 96 vCPU machine types when using the Skylake platform
- Memory-optimized machine types with 1.4 TB of memory
|
asia-east1-b | - Available CPU platforms:
- Intel Xeon E5 v2 (Ivy Bridge) platform
- Intel Xeon E5 v4 (Broadwell) platform (default)
- Intel Xeon (Skylake) platform
- Up to 96 vCPU machine types when using the Skylake platform
- Memory-optimized machine types with 1.4 TB of memory
|
asia-east1-c | - Available CPU platforms:
- Intel Xeon E5 v2 (Ivy Bridge) platform
- Intel Xeon E5 v4 (Broadwell) platform (default)
- Intel Xeon (Skylake) platform
- Up to 96 vCPU machine types when using the Skylake platform
|
asia-east2 | Hong Kong | Hong Kong | asia-east2-a asia-east2-b asia-east2-c
| - Available CPU platforms:
- Intel Xeon E5 v4 (Broadwell) platform
- Intel Xeon (Skylake) platform (default)
- Up to 96 vCPU machine types when using the Skylake platform
|
asia-northeast1 | Tokyo | Tokyo, Japan | asia-northeast1-a | - Available CPU platforms:
- Intel Xeon E5 v4 (Broadwell) platform (default)
- Intel Xeon (Skylake) platform
- Up to 96 vCPU machine types when using the Skylake platform
- Memory-optimized machine types with up to 160 vCPUs and 3.75 TB of memory
|
asia-northeast1-b | - Available CPU platforms:
- Intel Xeon E5 v4 (Broadwell) platform (default)
- Intel Xeon (Skylake) platform
- Up to 96 vCPU machine types when using the Skylake platform
|
asia-northeast1-c | - Available CPU platforms:
- Intel Xeon E5 v4 (Broadwell) platform (default)
- Intel Xeon (Skylake) platform
- Up to 96 vCPU machine types when using the Skylake platform
- Memory-optimized machine types with up to 160 vCPUs and 3.75 TB of memory
|
asia-northeast2 | Osaka | Osaka, Japan | asia-northeast2-a asia-northeast2-b asia-northeast2-c
| - Available CPU platforms:
- Intel Xeon (Skylake) platform (default)
- Up to 96 vCPU machine types when using the Skylake platform
|
asia-south1 | Mumbai | Mumbai, India | asia-south1-a asia-south1-c
| - Available CPU platforms:
- Intel Xeon E5 v4 (Broadwell) platform
- Intel Xeon (Skylake) platform (default)
- Up to 96 vCPU machine types when using the Skylake platform
|
asia-south1-b | - Available CPU platforms:
- Intel Xeon E5 v4 (Broadwell) platform
- Intel Xeon (Skylake) platform (default)
- Up to 96 vCPU machine types when using the Skylake platform
|
asia-southeast1 | Singapore | Jurong West, Singapore | | - Available CPU platforms:
- Intel Xeon E5 v4 (Broadwell) platform (default)
- Intel Xeon (Skylake) platform
- Up to 96 vCPU machine types when using the Skylake platform
- Memory-optimized machine types with 1.4 TB of memory
|
| - Available CPU platforms:
- Intel Xeon E5 v4 (Broadwell) platform (default)
- Intel Xeon (Skylake) platform
- Up to 96 vCPU machine types when using the Skylake platform
- Memory-optimized machine types with 1.4 TB of memory
- Memory-optimized machine types with up to 160 vCPUs and 3.75 TB of memory
|
| - Available CPU platforms:
- Intel Xeon E5 v4 (Broadwell) platform (default)
- Intel Xeon (Skylake) platform
- Up to 96 vCPU machine types when using the Skylake platform
- Memory-optimized machine types with 160 vCPUs and 3.75 TB of memory
|
australia-southeast1 | Sydney | Sydney, Australia | australia-southeast1-a australia-southeast1-b
| - Available CPU platforms:
- Intel Xeon E5 v4 (Broadwell) platform (default)
- Intel Xeon (Skylake) platform
- Up to 96 vCPU machine types when using the Skylake platform
|
| - Available CPU platforms:
- Intel Xeon E5 v4 (Broadwell) platform (default)
- Intel Xeon (Skylake) platform
- Up to 96 vCPU machine types when using the Skylake platform
- Memory-optimized machine types with 160 vCPUs and 3.75 TB of memory
|
europe-north1 | Finland | Hamina, Finland | europe-north1-a europe-north1-b europe-north1-c
| - Available CPU platforms:
- Intel Xeon E5 v4 (Broadwell) platform
- Intel Xeon (Skylake) platform (default)
- Up to 96 vCPU machine types
|
europe-west1 | Belgium | St. Ghislain, Belgium | europe-west1-b | - Available CPU platforms:
- Intel Xeon E5 (Sandy Bridge) platform
- Intel Xeon E5 v3 (Haswell) platform (default)
- Intel Xeon E5 v4 (Broadwell) platform
- Intel Xeon (Skylake) platform
- Up to 96 vCPU machine types when using the Skylake platform
- Memory-optimized machine types with up to 160 vCPUs and 3.75 TB of memory
|
europe-west1-c | - Available CPU platforms:
- Intel Xeon E5 v2 (Ivy Bridge) platform
- Intel Xeon E5 v3 (Haswell) platform (default)
- Intel Xeon E5 v4 (Broadwell) platform
- Intel Xeon (Skylake) platform
- Up to 96 vCPU machine types when using the Skylake platform
|
europe-west1-d | - Available CPU platforms:
- Intel Xeon E5 v3 (Haswell) platform (default)
- Intel Xeon E5 v4 (Broadwell) platform
- Intel Xeon (Skylake) platform
- Up to 96 vCPU machine types when using the Skylake platform
- Memory-optimized machine types with up to 160 vCPUs and 3.75 TB of memory
|
europe-west2 | London | London, England, UK | europe-west2-a europe-west2-b europe-west2-c
| - Available CPU platforms:
- Intel Xeon E5 v4 (Broadwell) platform (default)
- Intel Xeon (Skylake) platform
- Up to 96 vCPU machine types when using the Skylake platform
|
europe-west3 | Frankfurt | Frankfurt, Germany |
europe-west3-a europe-west3-b
| - Available CPU platforms:
- Intel Xeon E5 v4 (Broadwell) platform (default)
- Intel Xeon (Skylake) platform
- Up to 96 vCPU machine types when using the Skylake platform
- Memory-optimized machine types with 160 vCPUs and 3.75 TB of memory
|
| - Available CPU platforms:
- Intel Xeon E5 v4 (Broadwell) platform (default)
- Intel Xeon (Skylake) platform
- Up to 96 vCPU machine types when using the Skylake platform
|
europe-west4 | Netherlands | Eemshaven, Netherlands | europe-west4-a europe-west4-b europe-west4-c
| - Available CPU platforms:
- Intel Xeon E5 v4 (Broadwell) platform
- Intel Xeon (Skylake) platform (default)
- Up to 96 vCPU machine types
|
europe-west6 | Zürich | Zürich, Switzerland | europe-west6-a europe-west6-b europe-west6-c
| - Available CPU platforms:
- Intel Xeon (Skylake) platform (default)
- Up to 96 vCPU machine types when using the Skylake platform
|
northamerica-northeast1 | Montréal | Montréal, Québec, Canada | northamerica-northeast1-a
| - Available CPU platforms:
- Intel Xeon E5 v4 (Broadwell) platform
- Intel Xeon (Skylake) platform (default)
- Up to 96 vCPU machine types when using the Skylake platform
|
northamerica-northeast1-b northamerica-northeast1-c
| - Available CPU platforms:
- Intel Xeon E5 v4 (Broadwell) platform
- Intel Xeon (Skylake) platform (default)
- Up to 96 vCPU machine types when using the Skylake platform
- Memory-optimized machine types with up to 160 vCPUs and 3.75 TB of memory
|
southamerica-east1 | São Paulo | São Paulo, Brazil | | - Available CPU platforms:
- Intel Xeon E5 v4 (Broadwell) platform (default)
- Up to 64 vCPU machine types
|
southamerica-east1-b | - Available CPU platforms:
- Intel Xeon E5 v4 (Broadwell) platform (default)
- Up to 64 vCPU machine types
- Memory-optimized machine types with up to 160 vCPUs and 3.75 TB of memory
|
southamerica-east1-c | - Available CPU platforms:
- Intel Xeon E5 v4 (Broadwell) platform (default)
- Up to 64 vCPU machine types
- Memory-optimized machine types with up to 160 vCPUs and 3.75 TB of memory
|
us-central1 | Iowa | Council Bluffs, Iowa, USA | us-central1-a | - Available CPU platforms:
- Intel Xeon E5 (Sandy Bridge) platform
- Intel Xeon E5 v3 (Haswell) platform (default)
- Intel Xeon E5 v4 (Broadwell) platform
- Intel Xeon (Skylake) platform
- Up to 96 vCPU machine types when using the Skylake platform
- Memory-optimized machine types with 1.4 TB of memory
- Memory-optimized machine types with up to 160 vCPUs and 3.75 TB of memory
|
us-central1-b | - Available CPU platforms:
- Intel Xeon E5 v3 (Haswell) platform (default)
- Intel Xeon E5 v4 (Broadwell) platform
- Intel Xeon (Skylake) platform
- Up to 96 vCPU machine types when using the Skylake platform
- Memory-optimized machine types with up to 160 vCPUs and 3.75 TB of memory
|
us-central1-c | - Available CPU platforms:
- Intel Xeon E5 v3 (Haswell) platform (default)
- Intel Xeon E5 v4 (Broadwell) platform
- Intel Xeon (Skylake) platform
- Up to 96 vCPU machine types when using the Skylake platform
- Memory-optimized machine types with up to 160 vCPUs and 3.75 TB of memory
|
us-central1-f | - Available CPU platforms:
- Intel Xeon E5 v2 (Ivy Bridge) platform
- Intel Xeon E5 v3 (Haswell) platform (default)
- Intel Xeon E5 v4 (Broadwell) platform
- Intel Xeon (Skylake) platform
- Up to 96 vCPU machine types when using the Skylake platform
|
us-east1 | South Carolina | Moncks Corner, South Carolina, USA | us-east1-b | - Available CPU platforms:
- Intel Xeon E5 v3 (Haswell) platform (default)
- Intel Xeon E5 v4 (Broadwell) platform
- Intel Xeon (Skylake) platform
- Up to 96 vCPU machine types when using the Skylake platform
- Memory-optimized machine types with up to 160 vCPUs and 3.75 TB of memory
|
| - Available CPU platforms:
- Intel Xeon E5 v3 (Haswell) platform (default)
- Intel Xeon E5 v4 (Broadwell) platform
- Intel Xeon (Skylake) platform
- Up to 96 vCPU machine types when using the Skylake platform
- Memory-optimized machine types with 1.4 TB of memory
|
| - Available CPU platforms:
- Intel Xeon E5 v3 (Haswell) platform (default)
- Intel Xeon E5 v4 (Broadwell) platform
- Intel Xeon (Skylake) platform
- Up to 96 vCPU machine types when using the Skylake platform
|
us-east4 | Northern Virginia | Ashburn, Virginia, USA | | - Available CPU platforms:
- Intel Xeon E5 v4 (Broadwell) platform (default)
- Intel Xeon (Skylake) platform
- Up to 96 vCPU machine types when using the Skylake platform
|
| - Available CPU platforms:
- Intel Xeon E5 v4 (Broadwell) platform (default)
- Intel Xeon (Skylake) platform
- Up to 96 vCPU machine types when using the Skylake platform
- Memory-optimized machine types with up to 160 vCPUs and 3.75 TB of memory
|
us-west1 | Oregon | The Dalles, Oregon, USA | us-west1-a | - Available CPU platforms:
- Intel Xeon E5 v4 (Broadwell) platform (default)
- Intel Xeon (Skylake) platform
- Up to 96 vCPU machine types when using the Skylake platform
- Memory-optimized machine types with 1.4 TB of memory
- Memory-optimized machine types with up to 160 vCPUs and 3.75 TB of memory
|
us-west1-b | - Available CPU platforms:
- Intel Xeon E5 v4 (Broadwell) platform (default)
- Intel Xeon (Skylake) platform
- Up to 96 vCPU machine types when using the Skylake platform
- Memory-optimized machine types with 1.4 TB of memory
- Memory-optimized machine types with up to 160 vCPUs and 3.75 TB of memory
|
us-west1-c | - Available CPU platforms:
- Intel Xeon E5 v4 (Broadwell) platform (default)
- Intel Xeon (Skylake) platform
- Up to 96 vCPU machine types when using the Skylake platform
|
us-west2 | Los Angeles | Los Angeles, California, USA | us-west2-a | - Available CPU platforms:
- Intel Xeon E5 v4 (Broadwell) platform
- Intel Xeon (Skylake) platform (default)
- Up to 96 vCPU machine types
|
us-west2-b | - Available CPU platforms:
- Intel Xeon E5 v4 (Broadwell) platform
- Intel Xeon (Skylake) platform (default)
- Up to 96 vCPU machine types
- Memory-optimized machine types with 160 vCPUs and 3.75 TB of memory
|
us-west2-c | - Available CPU platforms:
- Intel Xeon E5 v4 (Broadwell) platform
- Intel Xeon (Skylake) platform (default)
- Up to 96 vCPU machine types
- Memory-optimized machine types with up to 160 vCPUs and 3.75 TB of memory
|
Announced regions
In 2019 and 2020, Google will continue expanding into the following new regions:
Zurich (Switzerland)Launched!Osaka (Japan)Launched!- Seoul (South Korea)
- Salt Lake City (USA)
- Jakarta (Indonesia)
Transparent maintenance
Google regularly maintains its infrastructure by patching systems with thelatest software, performing routine tests and preventative maintenance, andgenerally ensuring that Google infrastructure is as fast and efficient as Googleknows how to make it.
By default, all instances are configured so that these maintenance events aretransparent to your applications and workloads. Google uses a combination ofdatacenter innovations, operational best practices, and live migrationtechnology to move running virtual machine instances out of the way ofmaintenance that is being performed. Your instance continues to run within thesame zone with no action on your part.
By default, all virtual machines are set to live migrate, but you can also setyour virtual machines to terminate and reboot. The two options differ in thefollowing ways:
Live migrate
Compute Engine automatically migrates your running instance. Themigration process will impact guest performance to some degree but yourinstance remains online throughout the migration process. The exact guestperformance impact and duration depends on many factors, but it is expectedmost applications and workloads will not be notice. For more information,see Live Migration.
Terminate 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 awayfrom the maintenance event.
For more information on how to set the options above for your instances, seeSetting Instance Scheduling Options.
Zone deprecation
It is never necessary to decommission an existing zone for aground-up infrastructure refresh (power, cooling, network fabric, servers,etc.). Infrastructure refreshes are rare and zones typically run for three tofive years between refreshes. These refreshes should be transparent tocustomers.
If it ever becomes necessary to deprecate a zone, Compute Engine willnotify users well in advance of when it will go offline so you have ample timeto move your virtual machine instances and workloads.
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 youcreate these resources, it counts towards your total project-wide quota or yourper-region quota, if applicable. If any of the affected quota limits areexceeded, you won't be able to add more resources of the same type in thatproject or region.
To see a comprehensive list of quotas that apply to your project, visit theQuotas page in the Google Cloud Platform Console.
For example, if your global target pools quota is 50 and you create 25 targetpools in example-region-1 and 25 target pools in example-region-2, you reachyour project-wide quota and won't be able to create more target pools in anyregion within your project until you free up space. Similarly, if you have aper-region quota of 7 reserved IP addresses, you can only reserve up to 7 IPaddresses in a single region. After you hit that limit, you will either needto reserve IP addresses in a new region or release some IP addresses.
Tips
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When selecting zones, here are some things to keep in mind:
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Communication within and across regions will incur different costs.
Generally, communication within regions will always be cheaper and faster than communicationacross different regions.
Design important systems with redundancy across multiple zones.
At some point in time, it is possible that your instances might experiencean 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-b andeurope-west1-c, if europe-west1-b fails unexpectedly, your instancesin zone europe-west1-c will still be available. However, if you hostall your instances in europe-west1-b, you will not be able toaccess any instances if europe-west1-b goes offline. You should alsoconsider hosting your resources across regions. For example, consider hostingbackup instances in a zone in europe-west3 in the unlikely scenario thatthe europe-west1 region experiences a failure. Formore tips on how to design systems for availability, seeDesigning Robust Systems.
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What's next
- Learn how to view available regions and zones.
- Learn more about geography and zones.
- Learn more about the global, regional, and zonal resources.
- Learn about instances.
- Work through Linux Getting Started.
- Work through Windows Getting Started.
- Learn how to set a default project, zone, or region.