This page discusses the options for placing your instances in Google Cloudlocations.

When you create a Cloud SQL instance, you choose aregion where the instanceand its data are stored. To reduce latency andincrease availability, choose the same region for your data and yourCompute Engine instances, standard environment applications, and other services.

There are different location types:

Aregional location is a specific geographic place, such asLondon.

Amulti-regional location is a large geographic area,such as the United States, that contains at least two geographic places.Multi-regional locations are only used for backups.

Note:Some organizations use an organization policy to restrict resource locations. If this type of policy affects your project, you can only select regions the organization policy allows. In theLocation drop-down menu in the Console, the locations that are not allowed are unavailable. Learn more.

You choose a location when you first create the instance. The location can't bechanged after the instance is created.

Regional Locations

Regional locations are specific geographic locations within a multi-regionlocation. Cloud SQL is available in all Google Cloud regionsand is offered in upcoming regional launches at the time of launch. You cancreate a Cloud SQL instance in the following regions:

	Region Name	Region Description
Africa
	africa-south1	Johannesburg
Asia
	asia-east1	Taiwan
	asia-east2	Hong Kong
	asia-northeast1	Tokyo
	asia-northeast2	Osaka
	asia-northeast3	Seoul
	asia-south1	Mumbai
	asia-south2	Delhi
	asia-southeast1	Singapore
	asia-southeast2	Jakarta
Australia
	australia-southeast1	Sydney
	australia-southeast2	Melbourne
Europe
	europe-central2	Warsaw
	europe-north1	Finland	Low CO2
	europe-southwest1	Madrid	Low CO2
	europe-west1	Belgium	Low CO2
	europe-west2	London	Low CO2
	europe-west3	Frankfurt	Low CO2
	europe-west4	Netherlands	Low CO2
	europe-west6	Zürich	Low CO2
	europe-west8	Milan
	europe-west9	Paris	Low CO2
	europe-west10	Berlin
	europe-west12	Turin
Middle East
	me-central1	Doha
	me-central2	Dammam
	me-west1	Tel Aviv
North America
	northamerica-northeast1	Montréal	Low CO2
	northamerica-northeast2	Toronto	Low CO2
	northamerica-south1	Mexico
	us-central1	Iowa	Low CO2
	us-south1	Dallas	Low CO2
	us-east1	South Carolina
	us-east4	Northern Virginia
	us-east5	Columbus
	us-west1	Oregon	Low CO2
	us-west2	Los Angeles
	us-west3	Salt Lake City
	us-west4	Las Vegas
South America
	southamerica-east1	São Paulo	Low CO2
	southamerica-west1	Santiago	Low CO2

Multi-regional backup locations

Multi-Region Name	Multi-Region Description
asia	Data centers in Asia
eu	Data centers in the European Union
us	Data centers in the United States

Zones

Zones are sub-locations in a region where you can create zonalresources such as Cloud SQL instances. For example, a zone namedus-central1-a indicates a zone within theus-central1 region. A zone isindependent of other zones in the same region.

You can choose your zone to keep your Cloud SQL instance close to your otherGoogle Cloud services. If you want your instance to be replicated betweenzones synchronously, thenconfigure it for high availability.

You can add a zone when you first create the instance. You can edit the instanceat a later time to modify the zone.

Preferred Location

You canselect your zone. ChooseAny if you want the system to select and assign a zone for you duringinstance creation.

For more information about zones, seeGeography and regions.

What's next

• Get more information aboutbuilding applications to meet your latency, availability, and durability requirements.
• View all theGoogle Cloud services available in locations worldwide.