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