gcloud: Wed May 7 10:56:18 UTC 2025

gcloud/beta/compute/instances/create

@@ -71,8 +71,8 @@ SYNOPSIS
           | --confidential-compute-type=CONFIDENTIAL_COMPUTE_TYPE]
         [--custom-cpu=CUSTOM_CPU --custom-memory=CUSTOM_MEMORY
           : --custom-extensions --custom-vm-type=CUSTOM_VM_TYPE]
-        [--image-family-scope=IMAGE_FAMILY_SCOPE
-          --image-project=IMAGE_PROJECT --image=IMAGE
+        [--image-family-scope=IMAGE_FAMILY_SCOPE --image-project=IMAGE_PROJECT
+          --source-snapshot-region=SOURCE_SNAPSHOT_REGION --image=IMAGE
           | --image-family=IMAGE_FAMILY | --source-snapshot=SOURCE_SNAPSHOT]
         [--instance-kms-key=INSTANCE_KMS_KEY
           : --instance-kms-keyring=INSTANCE_KMS_KEYRING
@@ -407,6 +407,11 @@ FLAGS
             must contain only hyphens (-), underscores (_), lowercase
             characters, and numbers.
 
+         source-snapshot-region
+            The region of the source snapshot that will be used to create the
+            disk. You can provide region name to use regional snapshot as the
+            source snapshot.
+
      --csek-key-file=FILE
         Path to a Customer-Supplied Encryption Key (CSEK) key file that maps
         Compute Engine resources to user managed keys to be used when creating,
@@ -1216,6 +1221,11 @@ FLAGS
         ◆ If not specified and either image or image-family is provided, the
           current default project is used.
 
+     --source-snapshot-region=SOURCE_SNAPSHOT_REGION
+        Sets the scope for the --source-snapshot flag. By default, when
+        specifying an snapshot, the global snapshot scope is used. Use this
+        flag to override this behavior to use regional snapshots.
+
      At most one of these can be specified:
 
        --image=IMAGE