Choices for your business
Store your data safely in the cloud with more choices to meet your data storage needs. IBM Cloud Object Storage offers worldwide locations for your data storage needs with three resiliency options. Resiliency choices:

Resiliency option details
-When business continuity across multiple regions is top of mind. -Best combination of price, performance, and availability. -Recommended over Cross Region for most use cases — application development, analytics, big data, data lakes and low-latency workloads. -When in-country data is a top priority. -Not all IBM Cloud service integrations are available to Single Data Center. -Additionally, some services that are available may be hosted outside the region.
Cross Region
Regional
Single Data Center
Definition
-Multi-regional protection with concurrent regional access.
-Multi-site protection within a region with concurrent data center access.
-Single Data Center protection and access.
Recommended use
Latency
-100s of milliseconds
-10s of milliseconds
-10s of milliseconds
Availability of IBM Cloud service integrations
-Not all IBM Cloud service integrations are available to Cross Region.
-Regional has the broadest coverage of supported IBM Cloud service integrations.
Protection
-Protection against entire regional unavailability or outage.
-Protection includes entire site outage but not regional outages.
-In the event of a data center level disaster (fire, flooding etc.), data may be unrecoverable. Customer backup is recommended.