Sensitive Data Protection locations

Sensitive Data Protection is available in the following regions and multi-regions. For more information about regions and zones, see Geography and regions.

To learn how to specify a region or multi-region for Sensitive Data Protection to process your data in, see Specifying processing locations.

Regional endpoints

If you are required to keep in-transit data within a specific region, use a region that supports regional endpoints (REP). In the tables on this page, support for regional endpoints is indicated in columns with the REP support heading.

For more information, see Global and regional endpoints for Sensitive Data Protection.

Location-specific limitations

Note the following limitations of location-specific processing using Sensitive Data Protection:

• Image inspection and redaction, as well as image inspection within the following file types are only supported in the multi-regions and the global region:

  • PDF
  • Microsoft Word (DOCX)
  • Microsoft Excel (XLSX)
  • Microsoft Powerpoint (PPTX)

  If you attempt to inspect images in a region that doesn't support it, Sensitive Data Protection will fall back to scanning images as binary files. As a workaround, you can configure your scan job to skip these files by selecting the appropriate file types when setting up the job. This limitation applies to images within these file types only; location-specific processing of PDF, DOCX, XLSX, and PPTX files is supported.

• The ORGANIZATION_NAME infoType detector is only available in the global region.

• Storage inspection is supported in all regions that support region-specific Google Cloud storage repositories. Not all storage types are available on a region-specific basis. If a storage repository type such as BigQuery is not available for use in a particular region, you can't inspect it using Sensitive Data Protection.

• The content methods (content.inspect, content.deidentify, content.reidentify) are available in all regions.

Available locations

The following sections list the Sensitive Data Protection locations available for processing your data.

Note: All Sensitive Data Protection features are accessible globally. That is, you can always access all Sensitive Data Protection features on a non-region-specific basis.

Africa

The following table lists the regions in Africa where Sensitive Data Protection is available.

Region name	Region description	REP support
africa-south1	Johannesburg	No

Americas

The following table lists the regions in the Americas where Sensitive Data Protection is available.

Region name	Region description	REP support
northamerica-northeast1	Montréal	Yes
northamerica-northeast2	Toronto	Yes
us-central1	Iowa	Yes
us-east1	South Carolina	Yes
us-east4	Northern Virginia	Yes
us-east5	Columbus	Yes
us-south1	Dallas	Yes
us-west1	Oregon	Yes
us-west2	Los Angeles	Yes
us-west3	Salt Lake City	Yes
us-west4	Las Vegas	Yes
southamerica-east1	São Paulo	Yes
southamerica-west1	Santiago	Yes

Asia Pacific

The following table lists the regions in Asia Pacific where Sensitive Data Protection is available.

Region name	Region description	REP support
asia-east1	Taiwan	Yes
asia-east2	Hong Kong	Yes
asia-northeast1	Tokyo	Yes
asia-northeast2	Osaka	No
asia-northeast3	Seoul	Yes
asia-south1	Mumbai	Yes
asia-south2	Delhi	Yes
asia-southeast1	Singapore	Yes
asia-southeast2	Jakarta	Yes
australia-southeast1	Sydney	Yes
australia-southeast2	Melbourne	No

Europe

The following table lists the regions in Europe where Sensitive Data Protection is available.

Region name	Region description	REP support
europe-central2	Warsaw	Yes
europe-north1	Finland	Yes
europe-southwest1	Madrid	Yes
europe-west1	Belgium	Yes
europe-west2	London	Yes
europe-west3	Frankfurt	Yes
europe-west4	Netherlands	Yes
europe-west6	Zürich	Yes
europe-west8	Milan	Yes
europe-west9	Paris	Yes
europe-west10	Berlin	No
europe-west12	Turin	No

Middle East

The following table lists the regions in the Middle East where Sensitive Data Protection is available.

Region name	Region description	REP support
me-central1	Doha	Yes
me-central2	Dammam	Yes
me-west1	Tel Aviv	Yes

Multi-regions

Multi-region name	Multi-Region description	REP support
asia	Data centers in Asia	No
europe	Data centers within member states of the European Union^1	No
us	Data centers in the United States	No

¹ Data sent to the europe multi-region is not processed in the europe-west2 (London) or europe-west6 (Zürich) regions.

What's next

• Learn more about geography and zones.
• Learn how to specify a region or multi-region for Sensitive Data Protection to process your data in, see Specifying processing locations.