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.