Google Cloud Platform (GCP)

  • Capella Operational
    March 16, 2025
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    Couchbase Capella supports deploying clusters onto Google Cloud Platform (GCP).

    Couchbase Capella provides fully managed Couchbase Server clusters that can be deployed onto GCP. This page describes the various regions and configurations that are available to you when using Capella with GCP.

    Supported Regions

    Couchbase Capella’s fully managed DBaaS supports the following GCP regions.

    GCP Region App Services? Location

    us-east1

    US East (South Carolina)

    us-east4

    US East (N. Virginia)

    us-east5

    US East (Columbus)

    us-west1

    US West (Oregon)

    us-west2

    US West (Los Angeles)

    us-west3

    US West (Utah)

    us-west4

    US West (Nevada)

    us-central1

    US Central (Iowa)

    us-south1

    US South (Dallas)

    northamerica-northeast1

    Canada (Montréal)

    northamerica-northeast2

    Canada (Toronto)

    southamerica-east1

    Brazil (São Paulo)

    southamerica-west1

    Chile (Santiago)

    Zones

    Each Google Cloud region contains a number of independent zones. These consist of one or more discrete data centers that are isolated from failures in other zones. Capella can automatically distribute cluster nodes across multiple zones in a region for the highest availability. Every cluster in Capella is deployed with a minimum of 3 nodes. Except for free tier operational clusters, which deploy with only 1 node.

    The Multiple Zones option is the default when creating clusters using the Developer Pro or Enterprise Support Plans.

    The option to deploy across multiple Google Cloud zones is only available for clusters that use the Developer Pro or Enterprise Support Plans. Clusters using the Basic Support Plan deploy all nodes to the same zone.

    Configuration Options

    Clusters deployed onto Google Cloud have several configuration options that allow you to customize clusters to fit your requirements.

    Nodes

    As they’re intended for evaluation purposes only, free tier operational clusters only include 1 node.

    Clusters have a minimum of 3 nodes and a maximum of 27.

    Clusters consist of service groups that include the Couchbase services deployed and system resources. Each service group has a node quantity to represent the number of nodes in the cluster with that configuration. Individual service groups can have between 2 and 27 nodes but cannot collectively exceed 27. The service group that includes the Data Service requires at least 3 nodes.

    Compute and Memory

    Capella provides the following compute configurations for clusters deployed onto Google Cloud.

    Table 1. Google Cloud Compute Engine configurations
    vCPU Memory

    2 vCPUs[1]

    8 GB

    4 vCPUs

    16 GB

    4 vCPUs

    32 GB

    8 vCPUs

    8 GB

    8 vCPUs

    16 GB

    8 vCPUs

    32 GB

    8 vCPUs

    64 GB

    16 vCPUs

    16 GB

    16 vCPUs

    32 GB

    16 vCPUs

    64 GB

    16 vCPUs

    128 GB

    32 vCPUs

    32 GB

    32 vCPUs

    128 GB

    32 vCPUs

    256 GB

    36 vCPUs

    72 GB

    48 vCPUs

    96 GB

    64 vCPUs

    64 GB

    64 vCPUs

    256 GB

    64 vCPUs

    512 GB

    72 vCPUs

    144 GB

    80 vCPUs

    80 GB

    80 vCPUs

    320 GB

    80 vCPUs

    640 GB

    96 vCPUs

    384 GB

    96 vCPUs

    768 GB

    [1] This configuration is only available for free tier operational clusters in Capella.

    ⓘ Available in select regions.

    Storage Size

    Capella clusters deployed onto Google Cloud use SSD persistent disks (PD-SSD). These are suited for high-performance cluster needs that require lower latency and more IOPS than standard persistent disks provide.

    The amount of storage available per node in your cluster is configurable from a minimum of 50 GB.

    Free tier operational clusters only allow 10 GB of data storage.

    Clusters deployed on GCP support disk auto-expansion. For details, see Storage Auto-Expansion.

    Storage Speed

    Storage speed is measured in IOPS (input/output operations per second) that the cluster performs. Persistent disk speed is determined by the disk size and cannot be customized on its own. PD-SSDs receive 30 read and 30 write IOPS per GB provisioned, for an overall 60 IOPS per GB.

    To increase the read and write performance of the disk, increase the storage size. For example, the default 50 GB storage has a maximum read speed of 1500 IOPS and a maximum write speed of 1500 IOPS. Increasing the storage to 100 GB increases the maximum read speed to 3000 IOPS and the maximum write speed to 3000 IOPS.

    See Also

    Next Steps

    To create or modify a Couchbase Capella cluster deployed onto GCP, see the following pages: