creating new compute instance fails with unknown zone error for 'asia-south1-c'

[Harsh Bhikadia]

I am new to GCP so bear with me and forgive my ignorance.

I want to create a new compute instance at asia-south1 region, I am getting Unknown zone error. Following the command that I executed (asia-south1-c is my default zone).

$ gcloud compute instances create app --machine-type=f1-micro
ERROR: (gcloud.compute.instances.create) Could not fetch resource:
 - Invalid value for field 'zone': 'asia-south1-c'. Unknown zone.

The same error is caused by the UI console. I can see the zone available in gcloud compute zones list. Don't know what is wrong.

PS: My project was created via Firebase, I created a fresh project but same issue with that as well. I tried successfully with zone asia-southeast1-a and us-west1-a though.

[Roger Sels]

Just tried this command which succeeded.

Tonto:~$ gcloud compute instances create my-small-instance --machine-type f1-micro --zone asia-south1-c

Created [https://www.googleapis.com/compute/v1/projects/roger-ae-speeltuin/zones/asia-south1-c/instances/my-small-instance].

NAME               ZONE           MACHINE_TYPE  PREEMPTIBLE  INTERNAL_IP  EXTERNAL_IP    STATUS

my-small-instance  asia-south1-c  f1-micro                   10.160.0.2   34.93.229.148  RUNNING

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[EZEKIAS BOKOVE]

Hello. Use this method
$ gcloud config set compute/zone asia-south1-c

$ gcloud compute instances create name-instance --machine-type=f1-micro