# 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 │
| hg-zag-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.


| Data Center                       | Region               | Slug       |
| :---                              | :---                 | :---       |
| {{< icon flag-at-4x3 >}} AT-VIE-1 | Vienna, Austria      | at-vie-1   |
| {{< icon flag-at-4x3 >}} AT-VIE-2 | Vienna, Austria      | at-vie-2   |
| {{< icon flag-bg-4x3 >}} BG-SOF-1 | Sofia, Bulgaria      | bg-sof-1   |
| {{< icon flag-ch-4x3 >}} CH-DK-2  | Zurich, Switzerland  | ch-dk-2    |
| {{< icon flag-ch-4x3 >}} CH-GVA-2 | Geneva, Switzerland  | ch-gva-2   |
| {{< icon flag-de-4x3 >}} DE-FRA-1 | Frankfurt, Germany   | de-fra-1   |
| {{< icon flag-de-4x3 >}} DE-MUC-1 | Munich, Germany      | de-muc-1   |
| {{< icon flag-hr-4x3 >}} 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 dealt 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                  | -          |


## 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*.