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Reputation: 35434

What are the differences between region and prefered location of an Cloud SQL instance?

Editing an instance, we can see two inputs as below snapshot about region and about location.

How would we distinguish the two?

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Upvotes: 1

Views: 256

Answers (1)

cflewis
cflewis

Reputation: 7401

Within a region, there are multiple physical locations your instance can be. By setting your Preferred Location, your instance will come up in the same location as an App Engine or Google Compute Engine instance. This will minimize latency between your Cloud SQL instance and the othe AE/GCE instance.

Additionally, your Cloud SQL instance will follow the instance you've tied it to, so they will both locate next to each other, even if your AE/GCE instance moves.

If you don't care, you can leave Preferred Location to None.

Upvotes: 5

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