Unable to create serverless VPC connector for australia-southeast1 region

Alexander Kislitsky

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Mar 30, 2020, 1:54:42 PM3/30/20

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Hi!

We have an AppEngine and Memorystore instances placed in australia-southeast1 region. For connecting them we should create an Serverless VPC connector, but it is impossible to use 'australia-southeast1' as region:

```

gcloud compute networks vpc-access connectors create redis-vpc-connector --network default --region australia-southeast1 --range 10.9.0.0

ERROR: (gcloud.compute.networks.vpc-access.connectors.create) INVALID_ARGUMENT: Request contains an invalid argument.

```

But it is possible to create VPC connector in another region:

```

gcloud compute networks vpc-access connectors create redis-vpc-connector --network default --region asia-south1 --range 10.9.0.0/28

Create request issued for: [redis-vpc-connector]

Waiting for operation [projects/***/locations/asia-south1/operations/***] to complete...done.

```

Is it permanent limitation or temporary issue?

Alexander Kislitsky

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Mar 31, 2020, 6:45:51 AM3/31/20

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Command

```gcloud compute networks vpc-access connectors create redis-vpc-connector --network default --region australia-southeast1 --range 10.9.0.0/28```

is also failed with error ERROR: (gcloud.compute.networks.vpc-access.connectors.create) INVALID_ARGUMENT: Request contains an invalid argument.

In "Google Cloud Console / VPC Network / Serverless VPC access / Create connector" is also unable to select the australia-southeast1 region.

noverlyjoseph

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Apr 1, 2020, 9:22:54 AM4/1/20

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Hi Alexander,

At the moment australia-southeast1 is not a supported region for Serveless VPC.

You can find the list of supported regions here[1]

[1] https://cloud.google.com/vpc/docs/configure-serverless-vpc-access#supported_regions

Alexander Kislitsky

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Apr 1, 2020, 9:42:25 AM4/1/20

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Thanks for the link, Joseph!

I'd considered rollover to the GAE flex environment, but unfortunatelly it is not an option for us.

Seems that the simplest way is to deploy GAE app in the region with supported VPC connection. Moreover the prices in australia-southeast1 region are pretty high :-)

Olu

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Apr 2, 2020, 9:22:37 AM4/2/20

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Quite rightly, it is recommended that your App Engine application's VPC connector be created in the same region as the application. This is a required condition as stated in this documentation[1]

[1]https://cloud.google.com/appengine/docs/standard/python3/connecting-vpc#connecting_to_your_vpc_network

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