With built‑in cross‑zone and cross‑region options, IBM Cloud® Object Storage enables continuous data availability and protection without requiring customers to manage replication or failover.
Minimizes downtime and data loss risk by protecting your data across three geographically separate regions.
Helps protect your applications from data‑center outages while delivering fast, local access by keeping redundant data within a single city.
Helps safeguard applications from zone‑level failures.
Cross region
Multi-zone Region (MZR)
Single‑Campus Multizone Region
Definition
Multi‑regional protection across geographically separate regions.
Multi‑site protection within a single metropolitan area.
Multi‑zone resiliency with some or all zones contained within a single large campus.
Typical uses
Business continuity, disaster recovery (DR), global applications.
Default choice for most apps, High Availability (HA) workloads, low‑latency services.
HA workloads, low-latency services.
Data dispersion
Each object is dispersed with immediate consistency across three separate geographic regions.
Each object is dispersed with immediate consistency across multiple independent data center facilities in one city.
Each object is dispersed with immediate consistency across multiple availability zones, with at least two zones within one campus.
Resiliency
Protects against entire regional outages; remains available during region loss without reconfiguration.
Protects against site‑level outages, not regional failures; remains available during zone or site outages.
Protects against zone‑level failures; remains available during individual zone failures.
Availability of IBM Cloud service integrations
Not all IBM Cloud service integrations are available due to DR requirements.
Includes the broadest coverage of supported IBM Cloud service integrations.
Includes the broadest coverage of supported IBM Cloud service integrations.
Protect your data everywhere it lives with seamless, policy‑driven replication that boosts resilience, availability, and peace of mind.
Simplify data protection with native, application‑consistent backups that are fast, cost‑efficient, and built directly into IBM Cloud Object Storage.