davidkhala/cloud-region

This project is a simple reference file that maps cities to their cloud provider regions. Instead of hunting through different cloud providers' documentation to figure out which data center is closest to you, this repo gives you one place to look up that information. The core of the project is a single CSV file (think of it as a spreadsheet) that lists cities alongside their corresponding region codes for major cloud providers like Google Cloud, AWS, Azure, and Oracle. So if you're in Tokyo and need to know which AWS region that maps to, you'd check this file rather than clicking through AWS's docs. The use case is straightforward: developers, DevOps engineers, or anyone deploying applications to the cloud might need to pick a region close to their users for better performance. This file speeds up that lookup process. Instead of visiting five different cloud provider websites, you get one unified reference. It's especially useful if you work across multiple cloud providers and need a consistent way to think about geographic locations. The README does include a note that Google Cloud already has a more comprehensive "Cloud Location Finder" tool that covers multiple providers, regions, zones, and even factors like carbon footprint. That suggests this repo might be a lighter-weight alternative if you just need basic city-to-region mappings without the interactive filtering features of Google's tool.