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1 year ago Why the Cloud Provider is not an opion today
Technically speaking, as of today, the region identifier is enough to identify which cloud provider you are working with
- To get the list of regions:
astra db list-regions-serverless
+----------------+-------------------------+------------------------------------+
| Cloud Provider | Region | Full Name |
+----------------+-------------------------+------------------------------------+
| aws | ap-east-1 | Asia Pacific (Hong Kong) |
| aws | ap-south-1 | Asia Pacific (Mumbai) |
| aws | ap-southeast-1 | Asia Pacific (Singapore) |
| aws | ap-southeast-2 | Asia Pacific (Sydney) |
| aws | eu-central-1 | Europe (Frankfurt) |
| aws | eu-west-1 | Europe (Ireland) |
| aws | sa-east-1 | South America (Sao Paulo) |
| aws | us-east-1 | US East (N. Virginia) |
| aws | us-east-2 | US East (Ohio) |
| aws | us-west-2 | US West (Oregon) |
| azure | australiaeast | Australia East |
| azure | canadacentral | Canada Central (Toronto) |
| azure | centralindia | Central India (Pune) |
| azure | eastus | US East |
| azure | eastus2 | US East 2 (Virginia) |
| azure | francecentral | France Central |
| azure | westeurope | West Europe |
| azure | westus2 | US West (Washington) |
| gcp | asia-northeast1 | Asia Northeast1 (Tokyo, Japan) |
| gcp | asia-south1 | Mumbai, India |
| gcp | australia-southeast1 | Sydney, Australia, APAC |
| gcp | europe-west1 | St. Ghislain, Belgium |
| gcp | europe-west2 | West Europe2 (London, England, UK) |
| gcp | northamerica-northeast1 | Montreal, Quebec |
| gcp | northamerica-northeast2 | Toronto, Ontario |
| gcp | us-central1 | Council Bluffs, Iowa |
| gcp | us-east1 | Moncks Corner, South Carolina |
| gcp | us-east4 | Ashburn, Virginia |
| gcp | us-west1 | The Dalles, Oregon |
| gcp | us-west4 | US West (Las Vegas, USA) |
+----------------+-------------------------+------------------------------------+- You can filter by cloud provider:
astra db list-regions-serverless --cloud gcp
+----------------+-------------------------+------------------------------------+
| Cloud Provider | Region | Full Name |
+----------------+-------------------------+------------------------------------+
| gcp | asia-northeast1 | Asia Northeast1 (Tokyo, Japan) |
| gcp | asia-south1 | Mumbai, India |
| gcp | australia-southeast1 | Sydney, Australia, APAC |
| gcp | europe-west1 | St. Ghislain, Belgium |
| gcp | europe-west2 | West Europe2 (London, England, UK) |
| gcp | northamerica-northeast1 | Montreal, Quebec |
| gcp | northamerica-northeast2 | Toronto, Ontario |
| gcp | us-central1 | Council Bluffs, Iowa |
| gcp | us-east1 | Moncks Corner, South Carolina |
| gcp | us-east4 | Ashburn, Virginia |
| gcp | us-west1 | The Dalles, Oregon |
| gcp | us-west4 | US West (Las Vegas, USA) |
+----------------+-------------------------+------------------------------------+So a creation with -r region is technically enough to identify the cloud provider
astra db create my-new-db -r us-west4Evolution Proposition
Beside the technical aspect of things maybe it would reinsure for the user to add the cloud provider option but under the hood, there is no use, and you still need the region name.
astra db create my-new-db --cloud gcp --region us-west4 With error messages:
- If cloud provider does not exists
- if region is not provided
- if provided region is not part of the cloud provider mentionned
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While trying to automate an astra db creation via astra CLI I noticed that there's no way to specify the cloud provider. I reviewed the documentation, as well as the help command and it doesn't seem to be a way to change the default cloud provider. Would be great to have an option to do that.