What is Cloud Location Finder?
According to the documentation, Cloud Location Finder helps you identify and filter cloud locations in regions and zones across Google Cloud, Google Distributed Cloud, Microsoft Azure, Amazon Web Services and Oracle Cloud Infrastructure based on proximity, geographic location and carbon footprint.
Core Features
- Queries regions and zones across five platforms
- Filtering by latency and proximity metrics
- Filtering by geographic location
- Consideration of sustainability factors such as carbon footprint
- Access through a REST API and gcloud CLI commands
Typical Use Cases
New builds and modernization: Before building an application, you determine which regions meet the latency and location requirements.
Multi-cloud planning: Regions from different providers are compared against consistent criteria.
Sustainability assessment: Carbon footprint becomes a criterion in the location decision.
Benefits
- One query across several cloud providers instead of separate research
- Programmatic access through REST API and gcloud CLI
- Combines technical and sustainability-related criteria
- Supports decisions about the geographic placement of workloads
Integration with innFactory
As a certified Google Cloud Partner, innFactory supports you with Cloud Location Finder: defining your selection criteria, automating evaluation through the API, and deriving a sound region strategy for your workloads.
Typical Use Cases
Technical Specifications
Frequently Asked Questions
What is Cloud Location Finder?
According to the documentation, Cloud Location Finder helps you identify and filter cloud locations in regions and zones across Google Cloud, Google Distributed Cloud, Microsoft Azure, Amazon Web Services and Oracle Cloud Infrastructure based on proximity, geographic location and carbon footprint.
Which cloud providers are covered?
Google Cloud, Google Distributed Cloud, Microsoft Azure, Amazon Web Services and Oracle Cloud Infrastructure.
How do you access Cloud Location Finder?
According to the documentation, access is available through a REST API and gcloud CLI commands.
Which criteria can be used to filter?
The documentation lists latency and proximity metrics, geographic location, and sustainability factors such as carbon footprint.
Which scenarios is the service intended for?
The documentation highlights modernizing, expanding or deploying a new application across multiple clouds, where selection criteria include latency, geographic location and sustainability requirements.
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