Regions and Zones

Cloud Filestore instances live in zones within regions. A region is a specific geographical location where you can run your resources. Each region is subdivided into several zones. For example, the us-central1 region in the central United States has zones us-central1-a, us-central1-b, us-central1-c, and us-central1-f. For more information, see Geography and Regions.

Some Google Cloud Platform APIs, including the Cloud Filestore API, use the concept of locations, which can represent either regions or zones. For Cloud Filestore instances, locations map to zones.

To decrease network latency, we recommend creating a Cloud Filestore instance in a region and zone that is close to where you plan to use it. For example, if you plan to access the instance from Asia, then you should create it in one of the asia-east1 zones. Similarly, you will get the best performance by mounting Cloud Filestore volumes on clients in the same region, although you can mount a Cloud Filestore fileshare on a client in any region.

Supported regions

Cloud Filestore is available in the following regions and zones:

Region Name	Region Description	Zones
us-central1	Iowa	us-central1-a us-central1-b us-central1-c us-central1-f
us-west2	Los Angeles	us-west2-a us-west2-b us-west2-c
us-west1	Oregon	us-west1-a us-west1-b us-west1-c
us-east4	N. Virginia	us-east4-a us-east4-b us-east4-c
us-east1	South Carolina	us-east1-b us-east1-c us-east1-d
northamerica-northeast1	Montreal	northamerica-northeast1-a northamerica-northeast1-b northamerica-northeast1-c
southamerica-east1	São Paulo	southamerica-east1-a southamerica-east1-b southamerica-east1-c
europe-west1	Belgium	europe-west1-b europe-west1-c europe-west1-d
europe-north1	Finland	europe-north1-a europe-north1-b europe-north1-c
europe-west3	Frankfurt	europe-west3-a europe-west3-b europe-west3-c
europe-west2	London	europe-west2-a europe-west2-b europe-west2-c
europe-west4	Netherlands	europe-west4-a europe-west4-b europe-west4-c
australia-southeast1	Sydney	australia-southeast1-a australia-southeast1-b australia-southeast1-c
asia-east1	Taiwan	asia-east1-a asia-east1-b asia-east1-c
asia-east2	Hong Kong	asia-east2-a asia-east2-b asia-east2-c
asia-northeast1	Tokyo	asia-northeast1-a asia-northeast1-b asia-northeast1-c
asia-southeast1	Singapore	asia-southeast1-a asia-southeast1-b asia-southeast1-c
asia-south1	Mumbai	asia-south1-a asia-south1-b asia-south1-c