The Transcoder API is available in the following regions. For more information about regions, see Geography and regions .
Regions
The following table lists the regions in the Americas where the Transcoder API is available.
| Region description | Region name |
|---|---|
| Iowa, USA | us-central1
|
| Oregon, USA | us-west1
|
| Los Angeles, USA | us-west2
|
| South Carolina, USA | us-east1
|
| N. Virginia, USA | us-east4
|
| São Paulo, Brazil | southamerica-east1
|
| Montreal, Canada | northamerica-northeast1
|
The following table lists the regions in Asia Pacific where the Transcoder API is available.
| Region description | Region name |
|---|---|
| Taiwan | asia-east1
|
| Tokyo | asia-northeast1
|
| Seoul | asia-northeast3
|
| Mumbai | asia-south1
|
| Singapore | asia-southeast1
|
The following table lists the regions in Australia where the Transcoder API is available.
| Region description | Region name |
|---|---|
| Sydney | australia-southeast1
|
The following table lists the regions in Europe where the Transcoder API is available.
| Region description | Region name |
|---|---|
| Belgium | europe-west1
|
| London | europe-west2
|
| Netherlands | europe-west4
|
Location considerations
When you choose a region for use with the Transcoder API, you might want to consider the following:
Jobs
When you create a job, you specify a region to process it with the Transcoder API. After you create a job, you can't change its region.
Job templates
Optionally, when you create a job, you can specify a job template to populate the configuration settings for the job. The Transcoder API provides preset job templates in all regions where the API is available. You can also create user-defined job templates for each region where the Transcoder API is available.
To specify a user-defined job template for a job in a region, make sure the template is available in that region. To verify the existence of a template in a region, you can list all the templates in a region or send a request to get the details of a specific template.
Media assets
To submit media assets for a transcoding job, you first upload them to Cloud Storage. After a job completes, the Transcoder API saves the results back to Cloud Storage. When choosing a region for your jobs and media assets, consider doing the following:
- When importing data to Cloud Storage, co-locate the bucket for your media assets and your external data source.
- Co-locate your source media assets in Cloud Storage with the region of Transcoder API jobs.
- When choosing the output destination for a job, co-locate your output media assets in Cloud Storage and your external clients.
