Google Cloud Functions - multi regional setup

Question

When creating an http Google Cloud Function it seems that you are limited to the region of the project in the Google Cloud Console.

What if you want multiple regions for your Cloud Functions but want to have access to the same google services like storage, datastore, etc.? How would you set that up?

Otherwise, someone far from your region may get some latency.

Answer 1

You can deploy your GCF to multiple regions as Doug says, and obtain something like this:

• https://europe-west1-my-project.cloudfunctions.net/my-function
• https://us-central1-my-project.cloudfunctions.net/my-function
• ...

However, there is currently no managed way to "Load Balance" around multiple regions (hence reaching the best region for you); this burden is currently on you (you need to implement some logic client-side).

I'm trying to understand internally if there's appetite to build this feature (internal number 142776307). Comment here if you're interested in this (use cases / impact).