Regions and zones

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

To decrease network latency, we recommend creating a 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 get the best performance by mounting Filestore file shares on clients in the same region.

Supported regions

Filestore is available in the following regions and zones.

NORTH AMERICA

REGION NAME ZONES
OREGON us-west1
  • us-west1-a
  • us-west1-b
  • us-west1-c
LOS ANGELES us-west2
  • us-west2-a
  • us-west2-b
  • us-west2-c
SALT LAKE CITY us-west3
  • us-west3-a
  • us-west3-b
  • us-west3-c
LAS VEGAS us-west4
  • us-west4-a
  • us-west4-b
  • us-west4-c
IOWA us-central1
  • us-central1-a
  • us-central1-b
  • us-central1-c
  • us-central1-f
SOUTH CAROLINA us-east1
  • us-east1-b
  • us-east1-c
  • us-east1-d
N. VIRGINIA us-east4
  • us-east4-a
  • us-east4-b
  • us-east4-c
MONTRÉAL northamerica-northeast1
  • northamerica-northeast1-a
  • northamerica-northeast1-b
  • northamerica-northeast1-c
TORONTO northamerica-northeast2
  • northamerica-northeast2-a
  • northamerica-northeast2-b
  • northamerica-northeast2-c

SOUTH AMERICA

REGION NAME ZONES
SÃO PAULO southamerica-east1
  • southamerica-east1-a
  • southamerica-east1-b
  • southamerica-east1-c
SANTIAGO southamerica-west1
  • southamerica-west1-a
  • southamerica-west1-b
  • southamerica-west1-c

EUROPE

REGION NAME ZONES
LONDON europe-west2
  • europe-west2-a
  • europe-west2-b
  • europe-west2-c
BELGIUM europe-west1
  • europe-west1-b
  • europe-west1-c
  • europe-west1-d
NETHERLANDS europe-west4
  • europe-west4-a
  • europe-west4-b
  • europe-west4-c
ZURICH europe-west6
  • europe-west6-a
  • europe-west6-b
  • europe-west6-c
FRANKFURT europe-west3
  • europe-west3-a
  • europe-west3-b
  • europe-west3-c
FINLAND europe-north1
  • europe-north1-a
  • europe-north1-b
  • europe-north1-c
WARSAW europe-central2
  • europe-central2-a
  • europe-central2-b
  • europe-central2-c

ASIA PACIFIC

REGION NAME ZONES
MUMBAI asia-south1
  • asia-south1-a
  • asia-south1-b
  • asia-south1-c
DELHI asia-south2
  • asia-south2-a
  • asia-south2-b
  • asia-south2-c
SINGAPORE asia-southeast1
  • asia-southeast1-a
  • asia-southeast1-b
  • asia-southeast1-c
JAKARTA asia-southeast2
  • asia-southeast2-a
  • asia-southeast2-b
  • asia-southeast2-c
HONG KONG asia-east2
  • asia-east2-a
  • asia-east2-b
  • asia-east2-c
TAIWAN asia-east1
  • asia-east1-a
  • asia-east1-b
  • asia-east1-c
TOKYO asia-northeast1
  • asia-northeast1-a
  • asia-northeast1-b
  • asia-northeast1-c
OSAKA asia-northeast2
  • asia-northeast2-a
  • asia-northeast2-b
  • asia-northeast2-c
SYDNEY australia-southeast1
  • australia-southeast1-a
  • australia-southeast1-b
  • australia-southeast1-c
MELBOURNE australia-southeast2
  • australia-southeast2-a
  • australia-southeast2-b
  • australia-southeast2-c
SEOUL asia-northeast3
  • asia-northeast3-a
  • asia-northeast3-b
  • asia-northeast3-c