Regional availability of services and features
Cloud Pak for Data as a Service is deployed on a multi-zone region network. The availability of services and features can vary across regional data centers.
Regional availability of services on IBM Cloud
To access the list of available services and view regional availability of each service, see the Cloud Pak for Data as a Service service catalog.
Cloud Pak for Data as a Service services are available in the following regional data centers:
- Dallas (us-south), in Texas US
- Frankfurt (eu-de), in Germany
- London (eu-gb), in England
- Tokyo (jp-tok), in Japan
- Sydney (au-syd), in Australia
- Toronto (ca-tor), in Canada
Core services
| Service | Dallas | Frankfurt | London | Tokyo | Sydney | Toronto |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| DataStage | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ||
| IBM watsonx.data intelligence | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ |
| watsonx.ai Runtime | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ |
| watsonx.governance | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | |
| Data Virtualization | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ||
| watsonx.ai Studio | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ |
Other services
| Service | Dallas | Frankfurt | London | Tokyo | Sydney | Toronto | Global |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| *Analytics Engine | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | |||
| Analytics Engine Serverless | ✓ | ||||||
| **Cloud Object Storage | ✓ | ||||||
| *Db2 | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | |||
| *Db2 Warehouse | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | |||
| IBM Master Data Management | ✓ | ✓ | |||||
| Manta Data Lineage | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ |
* These services are available in other regions. For more information, see the Cloud Pak for Data as a Service catalog.
** The region for Cloud Object Storage is Global. Cloud Object Storage buckets for workspaces are Regional buckets. For more information, see IBM Cloud docs: Cloud Object Storage endpoints and storage locations.
Regional compliance with information security and privacy standards
Depending on the data center you work with, different services may comply with different information security and privacy standards. For more details, see the table on regional compliance with information security and privacy standards.
| Compliance Program | Service | Dallas | Frankfurt | Sydney | Toronto | Mumbai (AWS) |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| SOC1 Type2 | DataStage | ✓ | ✓ | |||
| SOC2 Type2 | DataStage | ✓ | ✓ |
Regional availability of watsonx features
Some features and tools for the watsonx.ai Studio, watsonx.ai Runtime, and watsonx.governance services are not available in every region.
The following table lists the regional availability of features that are not available in all regions. Features that are available in all regions are not listed.
| Feature | Platform/Service | Dallas | Frankfurt | London | Mumbai (AWS) | Sydney | Tokyo | Toronto |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| IBM Orchestration Pipelines | watsonx.ai Studio | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | |||
| RStudio | watsonx.ai Studio | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | |||
| Use multibyte characters in user-input fields in Data Refinery. | watsonx.ai Studio | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ||
| Only one instance per region | watsonx.governance | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ |
| Integration with Governance console | watsonx.governance | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | |||
| Governed agentic catalog | watsonx.governance | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ |
Regional compliance with information security and privacy standards
Depending on the data center that you work with, different services might comply with different information security and privacy standards. For details, see the Regional compliance with information security and privacy standards table.
| Compliance Program | Service | Dallas | Frankfurt | London | Mumbai (AWS) | Sydney | Tokyo | Toronto |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| ISO/IEC 27001 | watsonx.ai Studio (Formerly known as Watson Studio) | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | |
| ISO/IEC 27001 | watsonx.ai Runtime (Formerly known as Watson Machine Learning) | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | |
| ISO/IEC 27001 | watsonx.ai | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | |
| ISO/IEC 27001 | watsonx.governance | ✓ | ||||||
| ISO/IEC 27017 | watsonx.ai Studio (Formerly known as Watson Studio) | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | |
| ISO/IEC 27017 | watsonx.ai Runtime (Formerly known as Watson Machine Learning) | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | |
| ISO/IEC 27017 | watsonx.ai | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | |
| ISO/IEC 27017 | watsonx.governance | ✓ | ||||||
| ISO/IEC 27018 | watsonx.ai Studio (Formerly known as Watson Studio) | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | |
| ISO/IEC 27018 | watsonx.ai Runtime (Formerly known as Watson Machine Learning) | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | |
| ISO/IEC 27018 | watsonx.ai | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | |
| ISO/IEC 27018 | watsonx.governance | ✓ | ||||||
| SOC1 Type2 | watsonx.ai Studio (Formerly known as Watson Studio) | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | |||
| SOC1 Type2 | watsonx.ai Runtime (Formerly known as Watson Machine Learning) | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | |||
| SOC1 Type2 | watsonx.ai | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | |||
| SOC2 Type2 | watsonx.ai Studio (Formerly known as Watson Studio) | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | |||
| SOC2 Type2 | watsonx.ai Runtime (Formerly known as Watson Machine Learning) | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | |||
| SOC2 Type2 | watsonx.ai | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ |