Regional availability for services and features
IBM watsonx.data intelligence and IBM watsonx.data integration are deployed on IBM Cloud and AWS multi-zone region networks. The availability of features can vary across regional data centers.
View the regional availability for every service on IBM Cloud in the Services catalog.
Regional availability of the watsonx.data intelligence service
Watsonx.data intelligence is available in the following regional data centers:
| Region | Data center name | Cloud provider |
|---|---|---|
| US | Dallas (us-south) | IBM Cloud |
| US | GovCloud | AWS |
| US | N. Virginia (us-east-1) | AWS |
| Canada | Toronto (ca-tor) | IBM Cloud |
| Germany | Frankfurt (eu-de) | IBM Cloud |
| UK | London (eu-gb) | IBM Cloud |
| Australia | Sydney (au-syd) | IBM Cloud |
| India | Mumbai (ap-south-1) | AWS |
| Japan | Tokyo (jp-tok) | IBM Cloud |
Regional availability of the watsonx.data integration service
Watsonx.data integration is available in the following regional data centers:
| Region | Data center name | Cloud provider |
|---|---|---|
| US | Dallas (us-south) | IBM Cloud |
| US | N. Virginia (us-east-1) | AWS |
| Canada | Toronto (ca-tor) | IBM Cloud |
| Germany | Frankfurt (eu-de) | IBM Cloud |
| India | Mumbai (ap-south-1) | AWS |
For more information on the availability of watsonx.data integration tools in each region, see Regional availability of watsonx.data integration tools and features.
Regional availability of the IBM Cloud Object Storage service
The IBM Cloud Object Storage service is used by services on IBM Cloud. The region for the IBM Cloud Object Storage service is Global, which means that it is available in all IBM Cloud data centers. IBM Cloud Object Storage buckets for workspaces are Regional buckets. For more information, see IBM Cloud docs: Cloud Object Storage endpoints and storage locations.
Regional availability of watsonx.data intelligence features
There are limitations to the features you can use with watsonx.data intelligence based on the data center you choose to work with.
The following table lists watsonx.data intelligence service features that are available only in certain data centers:
| Feature | Dallas | Frankfurt | GovCloud (AWS) | London | Mumbai (AWS) | N. Virginia (AWS) | Sydney | Tokyo | Toronto |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Custom user roles | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | |||
| Asset activities in projects and catalogs | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | |
| Advanced primary key analysis, advanced relationship analysis, and advanced profiling | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | |
| LLM-based enrichment capabilities | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | |
| AI-powered glossary generation | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | |
| Unstructured data curation and governance | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ||||||
| Data quality rules | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | |
| AI-generated descriptions for data quality rules | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ||
| Data quality rules generated from natural language input | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ||
| Governance insights dashboards (Tech preview) | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | |||
| Data Refinery | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | |
| Deep enforcement of data protection rules through watsonx.data | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | |||
| Relationship explorer | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ |
| Data Lineage in general | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ |
| Data Lineage: Column level lineage | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ |
| Data Lineage: Manta agents | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | |||
| Data Lineage: Scheduling executions | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ |
| Data Lineage: Lineage flags | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ |
| Data Lineage: Alias assignments | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ |
| Data Lineage: Import supplemental source code | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ |
| Data Lineage: Import OpenLineage events | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ |
| Data Lineage: Export to Collibra | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | |||
| Data Lineage: Export to OpenLineage format | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | |||
| Data Lineage: User-defined lineage extensions | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ |
| Data Lineage: Lineage versioning | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ |
| Data Product Hub: Visualization to preview items in a data product | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | |||||
| Data Product Hub: Data extracts delivery method for data products | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | |
| Data Product Hub: Data products and SQL query assets generated from natural language input | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | |
| Data Intelligence Assistant | ✓ | ✓ | |||||||
| Data Intelligence Agent | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ |
Regional availability of watsonx.data integration tools and features
There are limitations to the watsonx.data integration tools and features that you can use based on the data center you choose to work with.
The following table lists the watsonx.data integration tools that are available in each data center:
| Tool | Dallas | Frankfurt | Mumbai (AWS) | N. Virginia (AWS) | Toronto |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| DataStage | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ |
| StreamSets | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | |
| Data Replication | ✓ | ||||
| Unstructured Data Integration | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ||
| Data Observability | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ |
The following table lists the watsonx.data integration features that are available only in certain data centers:
| Feature | Dallas | Frankfurt | Mumbai (AWS) | N. Virginia (AWS) | Toronto |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Ingest unstructured data from Filenet, Sharepoint, and Slack | ✓ | ✓ | |||
| Spark runtime for Unstructured Data Integration | ✓ | ✓ | |||
| Retrieval service and ACL retrieval in Unstructured Data Integration | ✓ | ||||
| Promoting unstructured data flows to a deployment space | ✓ | ||||
| DataStage Assistant | ✓ | ||||
| Data Observability issue detection engine | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ||
| Agentic Data Integration | ✓ |
Regional compliance with information security and privacy standards
Depending on the region where the service is deployed, watsonx.data intelligence might comply with different information security and privacy standards.
| Compliance Program | US | Canada | EU & UK | India | Australia | Japan |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| ISO 27K | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ |
| HIPAA | • IBM watsonx.data intelligence aaS Multicloud • IBM watsonx.data intelligence as a Service for Government Multicloud • IBM watsonx.data intelligence as a Service (Premium plan) |
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| FedRAMP Mod | IBM watsonx.data intelligence as a Service for Government Multicloud | |||||
| GDPR | ✓ | |||||
| DPDP | ✓ |