IBM Cloud delivers a consistent, full, and resilient stack of cloud services, globally

Over the last nine months, IBM has launched availability zones around the globe. IBM Cloud regions with availability zones are located in the United States (Dallas and Washington, DC), Germany, UK, Japan, and Australia.

Customers using the IBM Cloud may be already familiar with the concepts of availability zones and regions, but for those who aren’t, here are some simple definitions:

IBM Cloud Region: A region is a geographically and physically separate group of one or more availability zones with independent electrical and network infrastructures isolated from other regions. Regions are designed to remove shared single points of failure with other regions and guarantee low inter-zone latency within the region.

IBM Cloud Availability Zone: An availability zone is a logically and physically isolated location within an IBM Cloud region with independent power, cooling, and network infrastructures. It is isolated from other zones to strengthen fault tolerance by avoiding single points of failure between zones while also guaranteeing high bandwidth and low inter-zone latency within a region.

These regions and zones provide a full cloud service stack that enables highly available, redundant, and geographically dispersed customer solutions. This architecture provides the foundation you need to build and deploy your mission-critical applications in the cloud:

• Uniformity and consistency of cloud services between locations
• Improved resiliency and availability of the cloud platform and infrastructure

What services can you expect in IBM Cloud regions?

Available cloud services include popular IBM Watson AI, databases, developer tools, platform, and infrastructure services.

The following integrated services are available in all IBM Cloud regions with availability zones. Use this menu to assemble the stack that best suits your application or workload, confident these services are available wherever you need them.

Artificial Intelligence services

• IBM Watson® Discovery enables smart document understanding (SDU) and natural language processing (NLP).
• IBM watsonx Assistant is an AI-powered chatbot that comes pre-trained with industry-relevant content.
• IBM Watson Natural Language Understanding analyzes text to extract concepts, relations, sentiment, keywords, and categories.
• IBM Watson Personality Insights analyzes transaction data and social media to identify psychological traits which predict purchase decisions, intent, and behavioral traits.
• IBM Watson Tone Analyzer uses linguistic analysis to detect emotional and language tones in written text.
• IBM Watson Knowledge Studio enables subject matter experts to teach Watson the language of an industry or organization without coding or requiring AI skills.
• IBM Watson Language Translator translates text from around the globe and presents it in the requested language.
• IBM Watson Text to Speech and Speech to Text services convert written text into natural-sounding audio and provide an API to add speech transcription capabilities to applications.

Database services

• IBM Cloudant® for IBM Cloud Public provides a distributed database as a managed service. Cloudant is optimized for heavy workloads.
• IBM Cloud Databases provides native IBM Cloud services for open source databases, including MongoDB, PostgreSQL, and Redis.

DevOps services

• IBM Cloud Activity Tracker (Global) enables customers to easily view, manage, and audit IBM Cloud activity to comply with corporate policies and industry regulations.
• IBM Cloud Foundry Enterprise Environment provides a tenant-specific Cloud Foundry environment that is isolated from all other users.
• IBM Cloud Container Registry detects security vulnerabilities before images are deployed to containers.
• IBM Event Streams is an event-streaming platform based on Apache Kafka.
• IBM Log Analysis with LogDNA (Global) with LogDNA enables customers to quickly find the source of issues and gain deeper insight into application and cloud environment data.
• IBM Cloud Kubernetes Service provides Kubernetes-based container orchestration as a managed service.
• IBM Cloud Monitoring (Global) provides insight into how applications are performing and consuming resources.

Cloud platform services

• IBM Cloud Identity and Access Management (IAM) (Global) enables secure authentication and access control for IBM Cloud platform services and resources.

Cloud infrastructure services

• IBM Cloud for VMware® Solutions (Global) simplifies VMware migration to the IBM Cloud.
• IBM Key Protect for IBM Cloud provides life-cycle management for encryption keys used in IBM Cloud services and customer applications.
• IBM Cloud Internet Services (Global) provides all-in-one network management services, including distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) protection, web application firewall (WAF), and global load balancing.
• IBM Cloud Service Endpoint provides secure access between IBM Cloud environments and customer-owned facilities.
• IBM Cloud Object Storage provides resilient, flexible, low-cost object storage for IBM Cloud applications.

Note: Global services are not necessarily hosted in all regions but are available from all regions.

Learn more

To learn more about our global cloud footprint, please visit the IBM global cloud location page on www.ibm.com.

Can’t find the cloud service you need in the list above? To browse (and use) the full set of services we offer in the IBM Cloud, please visit our IBM Cloud service catalog page or jump to the IBM Cloud service availability by location table to see where all the services are available.