The Transcoder API is available in the following regions. For more information about regions, see Geography and regions.
Regions
The following table lists the regions in the Americas where the Transcoder API is available.
| Region description | Region name |
|---|---|
| Iowa, USA | us-central1 |
| Oregon, USA | us-west1 |
| Los Angeles, USA | us-west2 |
| South Carolina, USA | us-east1 |
| N. Virginia, USA | us-east4 |
| São Paulo, Brazil | southamerica-east1 |
The following table lists the regions in Asia Pacific where the Transcoder API is available.
| Region description | Region name |
|---|---|
| Taiwan | asia-east1 |
| Mumbai | asia-south1 |
| Singapore | asia-southeast1 |
The following table lists the regions in Europe where the Transcoder API is available.
| Region description | Region name |
|---|---|
| Belgium | europe-west1 |
| London | europe-west2 |
| Netherlands | europe-west4 |
Location considerations
When you choose a region for use with the Transcoder API, you might want to consider the following:
Jobs
When you create a job, you specify a region to process it with the Transcoder API. After you create a job, you can't change its region.
Job templates
Optionally, when you create a job, you can specify a job template to populate the configuration settings for the job. The Transcoder API provides preset job templates in all regions where the API is available. You can also create user-defined job templates for each region where the Transcoder API is available.
To specify a user-defined job template for a job in a region, make sure the template is available in that region. To verify the existence of a template in a region, you can list all the templates in a region or send a request to get the details of a specific template.
Media assets
To submit media assets for a transcoding job, you first upload them to Cloud Storage. After a job completes, the Transcoder API saves the results back to Cloud Storage. When choosing a region for your jobs and media assets, consider doing the following:
- When importing data to Cloud Storage, co-locate the bucket for your media assets and your external data source.
- Co-locate your source media assets in Cloud Storage with the region of Transcoder API jobs.
- When choosing the output destination for a job, co-locate your output media assets in Cloud Storage and your external clients.