Why do we need to identify resources based on certain zone/region?

Google Health status might announce issue regarding services in particular area.
For example, below is an example f the announcement of issues.

Summary: Multiple Google Cloud services in the europe-west9-a zone are impacted

Description: Water intrusion in a data center in europe-west9 caused a multi-cluster failure that led to a shutdown of multiple zones. Impact is now limited to services in europe-west9-a. There is no ETA for full recovery of operations in europe-west9-a at this time. We expect to see extended outages for some services. Customers are advised to failover to other zones/regions if they are impacted.

We will provide an update by Friday, 2023-04-28 07:00 US/Pacific, or upon any significant development.

Diagnosis: Customers may be unable to access existing Cloud resources in the europe-west9-a zone.

Workaround: Customers can failover to other zones in europe-west9 or to other regions.



How can Administrator identify affected resources in GCP?

The administrator of GCP can use "Asset Inventory" to quickly identify resources which are impacted.