GPU regions and zones

This document describes GPU availability for Compute Engine, Google Kubernetes Engine (GKE), and AI Hypercomputer. If you use GPUs with other Google Cloud services, GPU availability might differ. For those services, read about GPU availability in the following documentation:

• Vertex AI: accelerator locations
• Cloud Run: GPU regions
• Confidential Computing: GPU zones

Multiple locations worldwide host GPU resources. These locations consist of regions and zones, which you can read about on the Regions and zones page. Each zone offers a variety of GPU models. When you create resources that use GPUs, such as Compute Engine instances or GKE node pools, you can only use the GPU models available in your selected zone. For example, in the asia-east1-a zone, you can create an N1 general-purpose VM. You can attach T4, V100, or P100 GPUs to this VM, but not a P4 GPU. In the same zone, you can also create G2 accelerator-optimized VMs that automatically have L4 GPUs attached. However, you cannot create an A2 accelerator-optimized VM with A100 80GB GPUs attached.

Limitations and restrictions

• For A3 Mega machine types, the following regions and zones are available with limited capacity. To access these regions and zones, contact your Technical Account Manager (TAM).

  • Sydney, Australia, APAC: australia-southeast1-c
  • St. Ghislain, Belgium, Europe: europe-west1-b,c
  • Council Bluffs, Iowa, North America: us-central1-b

• For A3 High machine types, the following regions and zones are available with limited capacity. To access these regions and zones, contact your Technical Account Manager (TAM).

  • St. Ghislain, Belgium, Europe: europe-west1-b

• For A2 Standard machine types, the a2-megagpu-16g machine is only available in the following regions and zones:

  • Iowa, North America: us-central1-a,b,c,f
  • Netherlands, Europe: europe-west4-a,b
  • Singapore, APAC: asia-southeast1-c

GPU availability by regions and zones

The following sortable table lets you select different options to see where GPU resources are available. For machine types that have NVIDIA GPUs automatically attached, the GPU type is listed in brackets. You can search either by location or GPU machine type, or a combination of both.

Local SSD availability by GPU regions and zones

For all GPU machine types, Local SSD disks are available in the same zones as the machine type with the following exceptions:

• N1+V100: Local SSD disks aren't available in the us-east1-c zone.
• N1+P4: Local SSD disks are only supported in zones us-central1-c and northamerica-northeast1-b.

What's next?

• Learn more about geography and regions.
• If you encounter resource availability errors when requesting a GPU, see how to troubleshoot resource availability errors.
• Add Local SSD disks to your VMs. Local SSD disks pair well with GPUs when your apps require high-performance storage.
• Learn how to create VMs with attached GPUs.
• Learn about GPU pricing.