GCP – Simplify your multi-cloud strategy with Cloud Location Finder, now in preview

As cloud environments expand beyond traditional architectures to include multiple clouds, managing your infrastructure effectively becomes more complex. Imagine easily accessing consistent and up-to-date location information across different cloud providers, so your multi-cloud applications are designed and optimized with performance, security, and regulatory compliance in mind.

Today, we are making this a reality with Cloud Location Finder, a new Google Cloud service which provides up-to-date location data across Google Cloud, Amazon Web Services (AWS), Microsoft Azure, and Oracle Cloud Infrastructure (OCI). Now, you can strategically deploy workloads across different cloud providers with confidence and control.

Why use Cloud Location Finder?

• Unified location data: Cloud Location Finder makes it easy for you to access the latest location information, providing a single source of truth for cloud location data for Google Cloud, AWS, Azure, and OCI.   

• Rich location attributes: Data includes public cloud region and zone information, and location metadata like proximity¹, territory code, and carbon footprint. 

• Up-to-date information: Cloud Location Finder provides 24-hour data freshness for active regions, removing outdated information promptly when locations are turned down. This eliminates inconsistencies from hard-coded lists and ensures your information is current without manual monitoring.   

• Programmatically accessible: Especially for organizations with diverse cloud and location requirements, Cloud Location Finder eliminates the need to manually manage and choose new locations. And because it is an API, it is easy to integrate into your applications.

How can Cloud Location Finder help you?

Whether you’re a partner or customer, a Cloud Architect or application developer designing a hybrid setup or a platform admin ensuring governance, Cloud Location Finder offers valuable insights:

• Optimize deployments: Easily identify the nearest Google Cloud region or zone to an existing AWS/Azure/OCI deployment, to help you optimize your multi-cloud application for performance and latency.

• Meet sustainability goals: As your business grows, choose nearby cloud locations that are also sustainable.

• Help ensure compliance: Find a list of regions and zones in a specified territory to help you ensure compliant log storage or data processing across multiple clouds.

• Improve reliability: Rely on a consistent source of truth for location data, which can be integrated directly into your applications.   

Getting started

Cloud Location Finder is accessible via REST APIs and gcloud CLI, and available at no cost. You can easily list locations, get specific location details, find nearby locations, and filter these based on criteria such as cloud provider, location type, territory, or carbon footprint.   

Ready to streamline your multi-cloud location strategy? Explore the Cloud Location Finder documentation to learn more and start building with consistent, accurate location data today!

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