Sensitive Data Protection is available in the following regions and multi-regions. For more information about regions and zones, see Geography and regions.
To learn how to specify a region or multi-region for Sensitive Data Protection to process your data in, see Specifying processing locations.
Regional endpoints
If you are required to keep in-transit data within a specific region, use a region that supports regional endpoints (REP). In the tables on this page, support for regional endpoints is indicated in columns with the REP support heading.
For more information, see Global and regional endpoints for Sensitive Data Protection.
Location-specific limitations
Note the following limitations of location-specific processing using Sensitive Data Protection:
Image inspection and redaction, as well as image inspection within the following file types are only supported in the multi-regions and the
globalregion:- Microsoft Word (DOCX)
- Microsoft Excel (XLSX)
- Microsoft Powerpoint (PPTX)
If you attempt to inspect images in a region that doesn't support it, Sensitive Data Protection will fall back to scanning images as binary files. As a workaround, you can configure your scan job to skip these files by selecting the appropriate file types when setting up the job. This limitation applies to images within these file types only; location-specific processing of PDF, DOCX, XLSX, and PPTX files is supported.
Storage inspection is supported in all regions that support region-specific Google Cloud storage repositories. Not all storage types are available on a region-specific basis. If a storage repository type such as BigQuery is not available for use in a particular region, you can't inspect it using Sensitive Data Protection.
The
contentmethods (content.inspect,content.deidentify,content.reidentify) are available in all regions.
Available locations
The following sections list the Sensitive Data Protection locations available for processing your data.
Africa
The following table lists the regions in Africa where Sensitive Data Protection is available.
| Region name | Region description | REP support |
|---|---|---|
africa-south1 |
Johannesburg | No |
Americas
The following table lists the regions in the Americas where Sensitive Data Protection is available.
| Region name | Region description | REP support |
|---|---|---|
northamerica-northeast1 |
Montréal | Yes |
northamerica-northeast2 |
Toronto | Yes |
us-central1 |
Iowa | Yes |
us-east1 |
South Carolina | Yes |
us-east4 |
Northern Virginia | Yes |
us-east5 |
Columbus | Yes |
us-south1 |
Dallas | Yes |
us-west1 |
Oregon | Yes |
us-west2 |
Los Angeles | Yes |
us-west3 |
Salt Lake City | Yes |
us-west4 |
Las Vegas | Yes |
southamerica-east1 |
São Paulo | Yes |
southamerica-west1 |
Santiago | Yes |
Asia Pacific
The following table lists the regions in Asia Pacific where Sensitive Data Protection is available.
| Region name | Region description | REP support |
|---|---|---|
asia-east1 |
Taiwan | Yes |
asia-east2 |
Hong Kong | Yes |
asia-northeast1 |
Tokyo | Yes |
asia-northeast2 |
Osaka | No |
asia-northeast3 |
Seoul | Yes |
asia-south1 |
Mumbai | Yes |
asia-south2 |
Delhi | Yes |
asia-southeast1 |
Singapore | Yes |
asia-southeast2 |
Jakarta | Yes |
australia-southeast1 |
Sydney | Yes |
australia-southeast2 |
Melbourne | Yes |
Europe
The following table lists the regions in Europe where Sensitive Data Protection is available.
| Region name | Region description | REP support |
|---|---|---|
europe-central2 |
Warsaw | Yes |
europe-north1 |
Finland | Yes |
europe-southwest1 |
Madrid | Yes |
europe-west1 |
Belgium | Yes |
europe-west2 |
London | Yes |
europe-west3 |
Frankfurt | Yes |
europe-west4 |
Netherlands | Yes |
europe-west6 |
Zürich | Yes |
europe-west8 |
Milan | Yes |
europe-west9 |
Paris | Yes |
europe-west10 |
Berlin | Yes |
europe-west12 |
Turin | No |
Middle East
The following table lists the regions in the Middle East where Sensitive Data Protection is available.
| Region name | Region description | REP support |
|---|---|---|
me-central1 |
Doha | Yes |
me-central2 |
Dammam | Yes |
me-west1 |
Tel Aviv | Yes |
Multi-regions
| Multi-region name | Multi-Region description | REP support |
|---|---|---|
asia |
Data centers in Asia | No |
europe |
Data centers within member states of the European Union1 | No |
us |
Data centers in the United States | No |
1 Data sent to the europe multi-region is not processed in the
europe-west2 (London) or europe-west6 (Zürich) regions.
What's next
- Learn more about geography and zones.
- Learn how to specify a region or multi-region for Sensitive Data Protection to process your data in, see Specifying processing locations.