Data Center Zones

Exoscale uses zones to geographically distinguish locations. An Exoscale zone is:

• identified by a country code: CH, DE,…
• hosted in a physical datacenter facility
• each facility can be comprised of several rooms or buildings

Building around the zone concept

At Exoscale, zones are independant from one another. This means a failure in a specific zone and service has no impact on the other zones.

Most items are attached to a single zone only: a compute instance, an object storage bucket, private network, NLB, EIP,… Only a few items span globally: API key and security group

Zone types

Exoscale has 2 zone types:

• General purpose
• Restricted

General purpose zones

The list of datacenter zones can be obtained from our website or via the exo command-line like below

exo zone

Output:

┼──────────┼
│   NAME   │
┼──────────┼
│ at-vie-1 │
│ at-vie-2 │
│ bg-sof-1 │
│ ch-dk-2  │
│ ch-gva-2 │
│ de-fra-1 │
│ de-muc-1 │
┼──────────┼

Currently seven data centers are fully available for new workloads.

The table lists all data centers including region and slug for use in API and CLI.

Restricted zones

A restricted zone is a zone which is not available by default to all Exoscale organizations. This limitation arises from a number of possible reasons: not yet in production, out of capacity, exceeds its environmental limits for electricity or cooling or limited to a specific usage e.g. governement workloads.

Access to a restricted zone can be dealt via support request or via engagement with an Exoscale Cloud Architect. The current restricted zone list is as follow:

Latest Update

31 Jan 2024

• Munich zone is unrestricted.

31 May 2023

• New data center zone, Vienna-2 (AT-VIE-2) added.

31 March 2023

• Availability in Munich is set to Restricted.