---
title: "Data Center Zones"
description: "Discover Exoscale’s geographically isolated cloud zones in Europe for resilient, fault-tolerant workloads, available in general-purpose and restricted tiers."
url: https://community.exoscale.com/platform/dc-zones/
section: platform
last_updated: 2026-09-30
---
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# 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](https://www.exoscale.com/datacenters/)
    or via the `exo` command-line like below

```bash
exo zone
```

Output:

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

Currently eight data centers are fully available for new workloads.
A new data center zone in Madrid, Spain, is coming soon.

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


| Data Center | Region | Slug |
| :--- | :--- | :--- |
| AT-VIE-1 | Vienna, Austria | at-vie-1 |
| AT-VIE-2 | Vienna, Austria | at-vie-2 |
| BG-SOF-1 | Sofia, Bulgaria | bg-sof-1 |
| CH-DK-2 | Zurich, Switzerland | ch-dk-2 |
| CH-GVA-2 | Geneva, Switzerland | ch-gva-2 |
| DE-FRA-1 | Frankfurt, Germany | de-fra-1 |
| DE-MUC-1 | Munich, Germany | de-muc-1 |
| HR-ZAG-1 | Zagreb, Croatia | hr-zag-1 |


### 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 provided via [support](https://portal.exoscale.com/tickets) request or via engagement with an Exoscale
Cloud Architect. The current restricted zone list is as follow:

| Data Center | Region | Slug |
| --------------- | ----------------------- | ------------ |
| None | None | - |