When initializing the Vertex AI service, you can optionally specify a
location in which to run the service and access a model. If you don't specify
a location, the default is us-central1. See the list of
available locations later on this page.
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Available locations
Google Cloud uses regions to define regional APIs. Google Cloud only stores customer data in the region that you specify for all generally-available features of Generative AI on Vertex AI.
Generative AI on Vertex AI is available in the following regions:
United States
- Columbus, Ohio (
us-east5) - Dallas, Texas (
us-south1) - Iowa (
us-central1) - Las Vegas, Nevada (
us-west4) - Moncks Corner, South Carolina (
us-east1) - Northern Virginia (
us-east4) - Oregon (
us-west1)
Canada
- Montréal (
northamerica-northeast1)
South America
- Sao Paulo, Brazil (
southamerica-east1)
Europe
- Belgium (
europe-west1) - Finland (
europe-north1) - Frankfurt, Germany (
europe-west3) - London, United Kingdom (
europe-west2) - Madrid, Spain (
europe-southwest1) - Milan, Italy (
europe-west8) - Netherlands (
europe-west4) - Paris, France (
europe-west9) - Warsaw, Poland (
europe-central2) - Zürich, Switzerland (
europe-west6)
Asia Pacific
- Changhua County, Taiwan (
asia-east1) - Hong Kong, China (
asia-east2) - Mumbai, India (
asia-south1) - Seoul, Korea (
asia-northeast3) - Singapore (
asia-southeast1) - Sydney, Australia (
australia-southeast1) - Tokyo, Japan (
asia-northeast1)
Middle East
- Dammam, Saudi Arabia (
me-central2) - Doha, Qatar (
me-central1) - Tel Aviv, Israel (
me-west1)