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# Google Cloud Platform (GCP)

> Operational Insights supports deploying clusters onto Google Cloud Platform (GCP). 

This page describes the various regions and configurations that are available to you when using Operational Insights with GCP.

## [](#supported-regions)Supported Regions

* Americas
* Europe
* Asia Pacific

| GCP Region      | Location                 |
| --------------- | ------------------------ |
| **us-central1** | US Central (Iowa)        |
| **us-east1**    | US East (South Carolina) |
| **us-east4**    | US East (North Virgina)  |

| GCP Region       | Location    |
| ---------------- | ----------- |
| **europe-west1** | Belgium     |
| **europe-west3** | Frankfurt   |
| **europe-west4** | Netherlands |

| GCP Region          | Location  |
| ------------------- | --------- |
| **asia-southeast1** | Singapore |

## [](#availability-zones)Availability Zones

Every Operational Insights cluster must be deployed across a single availabilty zone (AZ) or two availability zones in a single region to ensure they tolerate failure of an entire availability zone. You can select the desired number of availability zone deployments from Operational Insights.

## [](#configuration-options)Configuration Options

Clusters deployed onto GCP can be customized to suit your needs.

### [](#nodes)Nodes

Clusters can have a minimum of 1 node and a maximum of 32 nodes.

> [!NOTE]
> The option to deploy 1 node is only available for clusters that deploy in a single availability zone and DevPro plan.

### [](#compute)Compute

Operational Insights provides user-managed compute configurations for databases deployed onto GCP. The compute resources are used when loading data, executing queries, and performing other DML operations. You can manually scale compute to increase or decrease performance.

Operational Insights supports the following compute configurations for GCP:

__Table 1\. GCP compute configurations__
| vCPU     | Memory |
| -------- | ------ |
| 4 vCPUs  | 32 GB  |
| 8 vCPUs  | 32 GB  |
| 8 vCPUs  | 64 GB  |
| 16 vCPUs | 64 GB  |
| 16 vCPUs | 128 GB |

## [](#see-also)See Also

* [GCP Regions and Zones](https://cloud.google.com/compute/docs/regions-zones)
* [GCP storage performance limits](https://cloud.google.com/compute/docs/disks/performance#performance%5Flimits)

### [](#next-steps)Next Steps

To create or modify an Operational Insights cluster deployed onto GCP, see:

* [Create a Cluster](../admin/prepare-project.md)