Overview
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.
Cross Region
Your data is stored across three regions within a geography for highest availability and resiliency.
Regional
Your data is stored in multiple data center facilities within a single geographic region for best availability and performance.
Single Data Center
Your data is stored across multiple devices in a single data center for when data locality matters most.
Resiliency option highlights
Cross Region
| Cross Region | |
|---|---|
| Definition | Multi-regional protection with concurrent regional access. |
| Recommended use | For business continuity, availability and resiliency across multiple regions. |
| Latency | 100s of milliseconds |
| Availability of IBM Cloud service integrations | Not all IBM Cloud service integrations are available. |
| Locations | Dallas, Washington DC, San Jose, Amsterdam, Frankfurt, Milan, Hong Kong, Tokyo, Seoul |
| Protection | Protection against entire regional unavailability or outage. |
Resiliency option details
| Regional | |
|---|---|
| Definition | Multi-site protection within a region with concurrent data center access. |
| Recommended use | Default resiliency choice. Recommended application development, high and low-latency workloads. |
| Latency | 10s of milliseconds |
| Availability of IBM Cloud service integrations | Broadest coverage of supported IBM Cloud service integrations. |
| Locations | Washington DC, Dallas, London, Frankfurt, Tokyo, Sydney |
| Protection | Protection includes entire site outage but not regional outages. |
Single Data Center
| Single Data Center | |
|---|---|
| Definition | Single Data Center protection and access. |
| Recommended use | In-country and locally restricted data. |
| Latency | 10s of milliseconds |
| Availability of IBM Cloud service integrations | Not all service integrations available; some services may be hosted outside the region. |
| Locations | Amsterdam, Oslo, Chennai, Paris, HK, San Jose, CDMX, Sao Paulo, Milan, Seoul, Montreal, Toronto |
| Protection | Data may be unrecoverable in the event of a disaster. Customer backup recommended. |