Method: acceleratorTypes.get

Returns the specified accelerator type.

HTTP request

GET https://compute.googleapis.com/compute/v1/projects/{project}/zones/{zone}/acceleratorTypes/{acceleratorType}

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.

zone

string

The name of the zone for this request.

acceleratorType

string

Name of the accelerator type to return.

Request body

The request body must be empty.

Response body

Represents an Accelerator Type resource.

Google Cloud Platform provides graphics processing units (accelerators) that you can add to VM instances to improve or accelerate performance when working with intensive workloads. For more information, readGPUs on Compute Engine.

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

JSON representation
{"kind":string,"id":string,"creationTimestamp":string,"name":string,"description":string,"deprecated":{"state":enum,"replacement":string,"deprecated":string,"obsolete":string,"deleted":string},"zone":string,"selfLink":string,"maximumCardsPerInstance":integer}
Fields
kind

string

[Output Only] The type of the resource. Alwayscompute#acceleratorType for accelerator types.

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.

description

string

[Output Only] An optional textual description of the resource.

deprecated

object

[Output Only] The deprecation status associated with this accelerator type.

deprecated.state

enum

The deprecation state of this resource. This can beACTIVE,DEPRECATED,OBSOLETE, orDELETED. Operations which communicate the end of life date for an image, can useACTIVE. Operations which create a new resource using aDEPRECATED resource will return successfully, but with a warning indicating the deprecated resource and recommending its replacement. Operations which useOBSOLETE orDELETED resources will be rejected and result in an error.

deprecated.replacement

string

The URL of the suggested replacement for a deprecated resource. The suggested replacement resource must be the same kind of resource as the deprecated resource.

deprecated.deprecated

string

An optionalRFC3339 timestamp on or after which the state of this resource is intended to change toDEPRECATED. This is only informational and the status will not change unless the client explicitly changes it.

deprecated.obsolete

string

An optionalRFC3339 timestamp on or after which the state of this resource is intended to change toOBSOLETE. This is only informational and the status will not change unless the client explicitly changes it.

deprecated.deleted

string

An optionalRFC3339 timestamp on or after which the state of this resource is intended to change toDELETED. This is only informational and the status will not change unless the client explicitly changes it.

zone

string

[Output Only] The name of the zone where the accelerator type resides, such as us-central1-a. You must specify this field as part of the HTTP request URL. It is not settable as a field in the request body.

selfLink

string

[Output Only] Server-defined, fully qualified URL for this resource.

maximumCardsPerInstance

integer

[Output Only] Maximum number of accelerator cards allowed per instance.

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.acceleratorTypes.get

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

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Last updated 2025-09-18 UTC.