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January 16, 2019 By IBM Cloud Team < 1 min read

You can now opt-in to EU support for the Key Protect service in Frankfurt, Germany.

You can now choose European Union (EU) support for the Key Protect service hosted in Frankfurt, Germany. This gives you additional control over where your data lives and who can access it. Client support tickets will also be routed to our client success team in Europe (available 24 hours a day, 7 days a week). Visit IBM Cloud Docs to learn how to enable EU supported settings and find out the EU-supported plans for a platform service.

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