Accelerators, such as Tensor Processing Units (TPUs), are specialized hardware components that can significantly speed up machine learning and high performance computing workloads. When you create Compute Engine instances or other resources on Google Cloud, you can attach accelerators to them. For an overview of these accelerators, see TPU machines .
The availability of specific TPU models varies by region and zone. This document provides a comprehensive list of accelerator availability to help you plan your deployments and select the appropriate locations for your resources.
The table in this document focuses on TPU availability for Compute Engine. If you use TPUs with other Google Cloud services, accelerator availability might differ. For those services, see the following documentation:
Zones that support TPUs
Google Cloud offers TPU resources in multiple locations worldwide. These locations consist of the standard regions and zones, which you can read about on the Regions and zones page. Each zone offers a variety of TPU versions. When you create resources that use accelerators—such as Compute Engine instances or GKE node pools—you must select a zone where that accelerator type is available. Compute Engine supports TPU7x, TPU v6e, and TPU v5p.
AI zones
In addition to standard zones, TPUs are available in AI zones. These Google Cloud locations are specifically designed to house resources for large-scale AI and machine learning workloads. AI zones offer access to TPUs, and might also offer other non-accelerator machine types to support the primary AI and machine learning workloads that run on the accelerators. To learn more about these specialized zones, see About AI zones . To view accelerator availability by zone type, use the Select a zone typefilter.
TPU availability
The following sortable table lets you select different options to see where TPU resources are available on Compute Engine. You can search by location, or TPU version. Note that Compute Engine supports TPU7x, TPU v6e, and TPU v5p.
| Zone | Location | Zone type | TPU version |
|---|---|---|---|
asia-northeast1-b
|
Tokyo, Japan, APAC | Standard | • v6e (Trillium) |
europe-west4-a
|
Eemshaven, Netherlands, Europe | Standard | • v6e (Trillium) |
europe-west4-b
|
Eemshaven, Netherlands, Europe | Standard | • v5p |
southamerica-west1-a
|
Santiago, Chile, South America | Standard | • v6e (Trillium) |
us-central1-a
|
Council Bluffs, Iowa, North America | Standard | • v5p |
us-central1-ai1a
|
Lincoln, Nebraska, North America | AI zone | • TPU7x (Ironwood) |
us-central1-b
|
Council Bluffs, Iowa, North America | Standard | • v6e (Trillium) |
us-central1-c
|
Council Bluffs, Iowa, North America | Standard | • TPU7x (Ironwood) |
us-east1-d
|
Moncks Corner, South Carolina, North America | Standard | • v6e (Trillium) |
us-east5-a
|
Columbus, Ohio, North America | Standard | • v6e (Trillium) • v5p |
us-east5-b
|
Columbus, Ohio, North America | Standard | • v6e (Trillium) |
us-south1-ai1b
|
Austin, Texas, North America | AI zone | • v6e (Trillium) |
Feature availability by region and zone
In addition to the availability of specific accelerator models, some related features and configurations have their own regional or zonal restrictions. The following sections outline the availability for these specific features.
Future reservations in calendar mode and Flex-start VMs
Future reservations in calendar mode and TPU Flex-start VMs are only available in specific zones.
- For a list of zones that support calendar mode reservations for TPUs, see TPU limitations for calendar mode reservations .
- For a list of zones that support TPU Flex-start VMs, see Limitations for TPU Flex-start VMs .
