View available regions and zones

This page explains how to view a list of available regions and zones and how to get information about a specific region.

To learn more about regions and zones, read the Regions and zones documentation.

To learn more about global, regional, and zonal Compute Engine resources, read the Global, regional, and zonal resources documentation.

Before you begin

If you haven't already, set up authentication. Authentication verifies your identity for access to Google Cloud services and APIs. To run code or samples from a local development environment, you can authenticate to Compute Engine by selecting one of the following options:
Select the tab for how you plan to use the samples on this page:
Console

When you use the Google Cloud console to access Google Cloud services and APIs, you don't need to set up authentication.
gcloud
1. Install the Google Cloud CLI. After installation, initialize the Google Cloud CLI by running the following command:
  gcloud init
  If you're using an external identity provider (IdP), you must first sign in to the gcloud CLI with your federated identity.
  
  Note: If you installed the gcloud CLI previously, make sure you have the latest version by running gcloud components update.
2. Set a default region and zone.
REST

To use the REST API samples on this page in a local development environment, you use the credentials you provide to the gcloud CLI.
For more information, see Authenticate for using REST in the Google Cloud authentication documentation.

Required roles

To get the permissions that you need to view available regions and zones, ask your administrator to grant you the Compute Viewer (roles/compute.viewer) IAM role on the project. For more information about granting roles, see Manage access to projects, folders, and organizations.

You might also be able to get the required permissions through custom roles or other predefined roles.

View a list of available zones

A zone is a deployment area within a region. Some regions have specialized zones that provide significant capacity for high-demand accelerators (GPUs and TPUs). These specialized zones are called AI zones, which are ideal for AI and ML workloads.

To view a list of available zones, including the AI zones, use one of the following options:

Console

View a list of zones on the Zones page in the Google Cloud console.

Go to Zones

gcloud

Using the Google Cloud CLI, run the gcloud compute zones list command:

gcloud compute zones list

REST

Make a GET request to the zones.list method to get a list of zones for a project. Replace PROJECT_ID with your PROJECT_ID.

https://compute.googleapis.com/compute/v1/projects/PROJECT_ID/zones

View a list of zones that support accelerators (GPUs and TPUs)

To view a list of zones that support accelerators (GPUs and TPUs), use one of the following methods:

To find AI zones that provide significant capacity for accelerators, search for AI zones.
To find all zones that support a specific accelerator, search by accelerator type.
To find all zones that support a specific machine type with an accelerator, search by machine type.

Search for AI zones

If you want to run AI and ML workloads, then consider using AI zones. You can identify an AI zone by the string ai in its name. For example, us-central1-ai1a is an AI zone in the us-central1 region, with us-central1-a as its parent zone. To learn more, see AI zone.

The Google Cloud console lists AI zones together with other zones, grouped by regions. To view a list of available AI zones, use the gcloud CLI or REST API.

Console

In the Google Cloud console, the Zones page lists the AI zones in a region where these zones are supported. You can identify an AI zone by the string AI in its name—for example, us-central1 region lists Zone AI1A.

Go to Zones

gcloud

Use the gcloud compute zones list command and filter zones containing the string ai:

gcloud compute zones list \
    --filter="name~'-ai'"

REST

Make a GET request to the zones.list method. To match zones containing ai in their name, use the filter query parameter with the regular expression name eq '.*-ai.*'.

GET https://compute.googleapis.com/compute/v1/projects/PROJECT_ID/zones?filter=name%20eq%20'.*-ai.*'

Replace PROJECT_ID with your PROJECT_ID.

Search by accelerator type

Searching by an accelerator type returns all zones, including AI zones, where that accelerator is supported.

gcloud

To search by accelerator type, use the gcloud compute accelerator-types list command with the --filter flag.

For example, to find all zones with a specific accelerator like an NVIDIA B200 GPU or a Cloud TPU v6e (Trillium), run one of the following commands:

NVIDIA B200

  gcloud compute accelerator-types list \
      --filter="name=nvidia-b200" \
      --format="value(zone)"

Cloud TPU v6e (Trillium)

  gcloud compute accelerator-types list \
      --filter="name=ct6e" \
      --format="value(zone)"

Replace the accelerator type in the example with the accelerator type by which you want to search.

REST

To search by accelerator type, send a GET request to the acceleratorTypes.aggregatedList method with the filter parameter.

For example, to find all zones with a specific accelerator like an NVIDIA B200 GPU or a Cloud TPU v6e (Trillium), run one of the following commands:

NVIDIA B200

  GET https://compute.googleapis.com/compute/v1/projects/PROJECT_ID/aggregated/acceleratorTypes?filter=name=nvidia-b200

Cloud TPU v6e (Trillium)

  GET https://compute.googleapis.com/compute/v1/projects/PROJECT_ID/aggregated/acceleratorTypes?filter=name=ct6e

Replace the accelerator type in the example with the accelerator type by which you want to search.

Search by machine type

Searching by a machine type returns all zones, including AI zones, where that machine type is supported.

gcloud

To search by machine type, use the gcloud compute machine-types list command with the --filter flag.

For example, to find all zones with a specific machine type like a4-highgpu-8g A4 machine type or a ct6e-standard-4t Cloud TPU v6e (Trillium) machine type, run one of the following commands:

a4-highgpu-8g A4 machine type

  gcloud compute machine-types list \
      --filter="name=a4-highgpu-8g" \
      --format="value(zone)"

ct6e-standard-4t Cloud TPU v6e (Trillium) machine type

  gcloud compute machine-types list \
      --filter="name=ct6e-standard-4t" \
      --format="value(zone)"

Replace the machine type in the example with the machine type by which you want to search.

REST

To search by machine type, make a GET request to the machineTypes.aggregatedList method with the filter parameter.

For example, to find all zones with a specific machine type like a4-highgpu-8g A4 machine type or a ct6e-standard-4t Cloud TPU v6e (Trillium) machine type, run one of the following commands:

a4-highgpu-8g A4 machine type

GET https://compute.googleapis.com/compute/v1/projects/PROJECT_ID/aggregated/machineTypes?filter=name=a4-highgpu-8g

ct6e-standard-4t Cloud TPU v6e (Trillium) machine type

GET https://compute.googleapis.com/compute/v1/projects/PROJECT_ID/aggregated/machineTypes?filter=name=ct6e-standard-4t

Replace PROJECT_ID with your Project ID and the machine type with the machine type by which you want to search.

View a list of available regions

Console

You can view the available regions on the Zones page in the Google Cloud console.

Go to Zones

gcloud

Using the Google Cloud CLI, run the gcloud compute regions list command:

gcloud compute regions list

The command lists all available regions and provides information such as quotas and the status of the region itself.

For example:

gcloud compute regions list
NAME             CPUS   DISKS_GB     ADDRESSES  RESERVED_ADDRESSES  STATUS
asia-east1       0/24   0/10240           0/23       0/7                 UP
asia-northeast1  0/24   0/10240           0/23       0/7                 UP
asia-southeast1  0/24   0/10240           0/23       0/7                 UP
europe-west1     0/24   0/10240           2/23       0/7                 UP
us-central1      0/24   0/10240           0/23       0/7                 UP
us-east1         0/24   0/10240           0/23       0/7                 UP
us-west1         0/24   0/10240           0/23       0/7                 UP

REST

Make a GET request to the regions.list method to get a list of regions. Replace PROJECT_ID with your PROJECT_ID.

https://compute.googleapis.com/compute/v1/projects/PROJECT_ID/regions

View information about a region

Console

You can view information about regions on the Zones page in the Google Cloud console.

Go to Zones

gcloud

To get information about a single region, run the gcloud compute regions describe command, where REGION is the name of the region you want to get more information about:

gcloud compute regions describe REGION

A response would be similar to the following:

creationTimestamp: '2013-09-06T17:54:12.193-07:00'
description: us-central1
id: '5778272079688511892'
kind: compute#region
name: us-central1
quotas:
- limit: 24.0
    metric: CPUS
    usage: 5.0
- limit: 5120.0
    metric: DISKS_TOTAL_GB
    usage: 650.0
- limit: 7.0
    metric: STATIC_ADDRESSES
    usage: 4.0
- limit: 23.0
    metric: IN_USE_ADDRESSES
    usage: 5.0
- limit: 1024.0
    metric: SSD_TOTAL_GB
    usage: 0.0
selfLink: https://www.googleapis.com/compute/v1/projects/PROJECT_ID/regions/us-central1
status: UP
zones:
- https://www.googleapis.com/compute/v1/projects/PROJECT_ID/zones/us-central1-a
- https://www.googleapis.com/compute/v1/projects/PROJECT_ID/zones/us-central1-b
- https://www.googleapis.com/compute/v1/projects/PROJECT_ID/zones/us-central1-c
- https://www.googleapis.com/compute/v1/projects/PROJECT_ID/zones/us-central1-f

REST

Make a GET request to the regions.get method to get information about a region. Replace PROJECT_ID with your PROJECT_ID and REGION with the region you want more information about.

https://compute.googleapis.com/compute/v1/projects/PROJECT_ID/regions/REGION

What's next

Learn more about Regions and zones
Learn about Changing the default region or zone
Learn more about Global, regional, and zonal resources

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Before you begin

Console

gcloud

REST

Required roles

View a list of available zones

Console

gcloud

REST

View a list of zones that support accelerators (GPUs and TPUs)

Search for AI zones

Console

gcloud

REST

Search by accelerator type

gcloud

REST

Search by machine type

gcloud

REST

View a list of available regions

Console

gcloud

REST

View information about a region

Console

gcloud

REST

What's next

View available regions and zones