Local Zones in Public Cloud: think global, act local
Grow your business and your customers’ businesses globally while operating locally. Drive business growth by optimising your access to data, improving application performance, and leveraging low latency, optimal storage, edge computing, etc.
Low latency and proximity
The strategic positioning of Local Zones near specific users or locations significantly shortens the physical distance data needs to travel.
Data residency
By processing data in Local Zones, you can ensure full compliance with data location regulations and meet your customers’ security requirements.
International coverage
OVHcloud has set an ambitious goal of deploying 150 Local Zones in both new and existing regions over the next three years.
High performance at an unbeatable price
Storing your data near end users reduces latency and improves the customer experience, thanks to high read-write performance and fast response times.
Cloud flexibility and scalability
Cloud computing and cloud storage in Local Zones both offer key features – flexibility and scalability. You can add resources on demand, and remove them when you no longer need them.
Standard and easy to use
OVHcloud Local Zone instances are adapted to virtually all kinds of needs, from long-term archiving to high-performance storage solutions. You can simply opt for the OVHcloud services, APIs and tools you need.
What are the steps to start a Public Cloud project with a Local Zone?
1.
Start a project
Click “Start a project” to create an account, or use an existing account.
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Log in to your OVHcloud Control Panel
Create an account or enter your existing login details.
3.
Create an instance in the Control Panel
Create an instance that is compatible with our Local Zones. In the second step, “Location”: select a Local Zone.
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More products coming soon!
Take advantage of our expanded product portfolio, now featuring Local Zones. We are gradually deploying new Local Zones across the globe.
Explore OVHcloud Local Zone locations
OVHcloud plans to deploy availability zones around the world using region-like infrastructure (1-AZ and 3-AZ), datacentres and Local Zones: 150 Local Zones to be deployed over the next three years, to bring our services closer to customers.
€200 free credit for your first project
Get OVHcloud essential cloud services across all of our Local Zones, at the best price.
Up to 150 Local Zones to meet the demands of the growing global market
A new model for agile deployment - Press release
OVHcloud Opens its First Two Local Zones in Spain and Belgium, Confirming Bold Ambitions of New Agile Deployment Model.
New Local Zone in Spain
General Availability (GA) of the first Local Zone began since early March 2024. The last is available in Madrid, Spain, with local IP addresses and OVHcloud cloud services.
New Local Zone in Belgium
The second Local Zone is available in Brussels, Belgium. Each location benefits from OVHcloud’s essential cloud catalogue and comes with local IP addresses.
Discover the next locations
OVHcloud plans to deploy Local Zones to continents and countries where it is not yet present, including major cities worldwide.
Use cases
Propel your cloud transformation forward
Easily and quickly migrate complex, latency-sensitive apps and data location-intensive apps to the cloud.
Low latency services and applications
Optimise your customers’ experience by hosting latency-sensitive applications locally, including SaaS services, real-time analytics, live streaming and replay services, augmented reality, virtual workstations, blockchain, and real-time gaming.
Closer proximity to your audience and localized IPs
Speed up the geographic expansion of your services and applications, including online shops and e-commerce sites, SaaS solutions like DNS, APIs, and VPNs. Enjoy lower bandwidth costs, faster page loading times, and greater global content availability. Ensure proximity to your edge computing needs.
Simplified migration to hybrid and on-premises cloud
Migrate your applications to a nearby OVHcloud Local Zone and ensure hybrid deployment with low latency and high security.
On-premises extension to a local cloud
Deploy with Local Zones to effectively scale your IT infrastructure in a controlled and trusted cloud environment, whenever necessary.
Meet data location requirements
Address the storage and processing needs of your customers or business while complying with local regulations in various sectors, including healthcare, public sector, cybersecurity, and industry.
Backup and disaster recovery
Use our storage and compute services to consolidate your data protection strategy with cost-effective, efficient, and immutable storage natively integrated with backup management software like Veeam (certified Veeam Ready) or HYCU.
Enter new markets
Quickly expand your business into new regions with OVHcloud Local Zones, and efficiently create and distribute your products and services.
Get started now with Local Zones
Create an account to access the OVHcloud Control Panel and deploy your Public Cloud services within a Local Zone.
FAQ
What is the difference between an availability-zone region and a Local Zone?
Regions comprise availability zones (AZs) deployed in OVHcloud datacentres, providing access to the full OVHcloud service catalogue.
Local Zones are deployed in shared datacentres and rely on essential cloud services (computing, storage, network). With extremely low latency, they enable you bring your services closer to your audience.
By combining regions with availability zones and Local Zones, you can create applications and services to match your needs.
Do the prices of services in Local Zone differ?
No, the prices for OVHcloud services are the same for each location. However, IP addresses need to be paid for and must be located in the country in which they are deployed. Public IP addresses are not automatically included with an instance.
Are public IP addresses localized?
Yes, public IP addresses are localized. You can have multiple IPv4 and IPv6 addresses on cloud services in a Local Zone.
How does connectivity work in a Local Zone?
Local Zones support IPv4 and IPv6 private and public networks. Due to the absence of a connection to our vRack private network, local private networks offer subset functionality.
Are Local Zones like edge computing?
Local Zones are the cornerstone of edge computing and are vital to the edge layer. Local nodes (edge nodes or edge servers) correspond to and enable cloud services to be brought closer to users and/or devices. The purpose is to set up a wide range of services, one of which involves collecting connected devices and centralising them on the cloud platform, specifically in regions where our datacentres are located.