Method: interconnectLocations.get

Returns the details for the specified interconnect location. Gets a list of available interconnect locations by making alist() request.

HTTP request

GET https://compute.googleapis.com/compute/beta/projects/{project}/global/interconnectLocations/{interconnectLocation}

The URL usesgRPC Transcoding syntax. To know more about valid error responses that can be thrown by this HTTP request, please refer to theservice error catalog

Path parameters

Parameters
project

string

Project ID for this request.

interconnectLocation

string

Name of the interconnect location to return.

Request body

The request body must be empty.

Response body

Represents an Interconnect Attachment (VLAN) Location resource.

You can use this resource to find location details about an Interconnect attachment (VLAN). For more information about interconnect attachments, read Creating VLAN Attachments.

If successful, the response body contains data with the following structure:

JSON representation
{"kind":string,"description":string,"selfLink":string,"id":string,"creationTimestamp":string,"name":string,"peeringdbFacilityId":string,"address":string,"facilityProvider":string,"facilityProviderFacilityId":string,"regionInfos":[{"region":string,"expectedRttMs":string,"locationPresence":enum,"l2ForwardingEnabled":boolean}],"crossSiteInterconnectInfos":[{"city":string}],"continent":enum,"city":string,"availabilityZone":string,"status":enum,"supportsPzs":boolean,"availableFeatures":[enum],"availableLinkTypes":[enum],"singleRegionProductionCriticalPeerLocations":[string]}
Fields
kind

string

[Output Only] Type of the resource. Alwayscompute#interconnectLocation for interconnect locations.

description

string

[Output Only] An optional description of the resource.

selfLink

string

[Output Only] Server-defined URL for the resource.

id

string (uint64 format)

[Output Only] The unique identifier for the resource. This identifier is defined by the server.

creationTimestamp

string

[Output Only] Creation timestamp inRFC3339 text format.

name

string

[Output Only] Name of the resource.

peeringdbFacilityId

string

[Output Only] The peeringdb identifier for this facility (corresponding with a netfac type in peeringdb).

address

string

[Output Only] The postal address of the Point of Presence, each line in the address is separated by a newline character.

facilityProvider

string

[Output Only] The name of the provider for this facility (e.g., EQUINIX).

facilityProviderFacilityId

string

[Output Only] A provider-assigned Identifier for this facility (e.g., Ashburn-DC1).

regionInfos[]

object

[Output Only] A list of InterconnectLocation.RegionInfo objects, that describe parameters pertaining to the relation between this InterconnectLocation and various Google Cloud regions.

regionInfos[].region

string

URL for the region of this location.

regionInfos[].expectedRttMs

string (int64 format)

Expected round-trip time in milliseconds, from this InterconnectLocation to a VM in this region.

regionInfos[].locationPresence

enum

Identifies the network presence of this location.

regionInfos[].l2ForwardingEnabled

boolean

Identifies whether L2 Interconnect Attachments can be created in this region for interconnects that are in this location.

crossSiteInterconnectInfos[]

object

[Output Only] A list of InterconnectLocation.CrossSiteInterconnectInfo objects, that describe where Cross-Site Interconnect wires may connect to from this location and associated connection parameters. Cross-Site Interconnect isn't allowed to locations which are not listed.

crossSiteInterconnectInfos[].city

string

The remote location for Cross-Site Interconnect wires. This specifies an InterconnectLocation city (metropolitan area designator), which itself may match multiple InterconnectLocations.

continent

enum

[Output Only] Continent for this location, which can take one of the following values:

  • AFRICA
  • ASIA_PAC
  • EUROPE
  • NORTH_AMERICA
  • SOUTH_AMERICA

city

string

[Output Only] Metropolitan area designator that indicates which city an interconnect is located. For example: "Chicago, IL", "Amsterdam, Netherlands".

availabilityZone

string

[Output Only] Availability zone for this InterconnectLocation. Within a metropolitan area (metro), maintenance will not be simultaneously scheduled in more than one availability zone. Example: "zone1" or "zone2".

status

enum

[Output Only] The status of this InterconnectLocation, which can take one of the following values:

  • CLOSED: The InterconnectLocation is closed and is unavailable for provisioning new Interconnects.
  • AVAILABLE: The InterconnectLocation is available for provisioning new Interconnects.

supportsPzs

boolean

[Output Only] Reserved for future use.

availableFeatures[]

enum

[Output only] interconnectLocations.list of features available at this InterconnectLocation, which can take one of the following values:

  • IF_MACSEC
  • IF_CROSS_SITE_NETWORK

availableLinkTypes[]

enum

[Output only] interconnectLocations.list of link types available at this InterconnectLocation, which can take one of the following values:

  • LINK_TYPE_ETHERNET_10G_LR
  • LINK_TYPE_ETHERNET_100G_LR
  • LINK_TYPE_ETHERNET_400G_LR4

singleRegionProductionCriticalPeerLocations[]

string

[Output Only] URLs of the other locations that can pair up with this location to support Single-Region 99.99% SLA. E.g. iad-zone1-1 and iad-zone2-5467 are Single-Region 99.99% peer locations of each other.

Authorization scopes

Requires one of the following OAuth scopes:

  • https://www.googleapis.com/auth/compute.readonly
  • https://www.googleapis.com/auth/compute
  • https://www.googleapis.com/auth/cloud-platform

For more information, see theAuthentication Overview.

IAM Permissions

In addition to any permissions specified on the fields above, authorization requires one or more of the followingIAM permissions:

  • compute.interconnectLocations.get

To find predefined roles that contain those permissions, seeCompute Engine IAM Roles.

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Last updated 2025-10-30 UTC.