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| keywords | high availability, disaster recovery, SLA | ||
| subcollection | ContinuousDelivery |
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{{site.data.keyword.contdelivery_short}} will be discontinued in the following regions on 10 April 2026: eu-es and jp-osa. This discontinuation also applies to any features provided within the service, including Code Risk Analyzer and {{site.data.keyword.DRA_short}}. Learn more {: important}
{{site.data.keyword.contdelivery_short}} will be discontinued in the following regions on 12 February 2027: au-syd, ca-mon, ca-tor, us-east. Code Risk Analyzer and {{site.data.keyword.DRA_short}} will also be deprecated in all regions on that date. However, if a region has no active usage of these features, the features in that region may be discontinued earlier and stop accepting new instances. Learn more {: important}
{{site.data.keyword.contdelivery_full}} is a general availability (GA) service with a Service Level Agreement of 99.99% availability that is offered in multiple regions: Dallas (us-south), Washington DC (us-east), Toronto (ca-tor), Montreal (ca-mon), Sao Paulo (br-sao), Frankfurt (eu-de), London (eu-gb), Tokyo (jp-tok), and Sydney (au-syd). Each location has three different data centers for redundancy. The data for each location is kept in the three data centers near that location. If all of the data centers in a location fail, the {{site.data.keyword.contdelivery_short}} service for that location becomes unavailable.
{{site.data.keyword.contdelivery_short}} does not replicate data outside of a region, except for backup data. When possible, backup data is kept within the data centers of a country but data is always kept within a geography. European data does not leave the EU. To learn more about where {{site.data.keyword.contdelivery_short}} backup data is stored, see Object Storage Location.
{{site.data.keyword.contdelivery_short}} is available only on the public cloud, but the tools that are used with {{site.data.keyword.contdelivery_short}} can run in public cloud environments and in on-premises environments.
See ensure zero downtime to learn more about the high availability and disaster recovery standards in {{site.data.keyword.cloud_notm}}. For more information about high availability and disaster recovery for {{site.data.keyword.contdelivery_short}}, see Your responsibilities with using {{site.data.keyword.contdelivery_short}}. You can also find information about Service Level Agreements.
In the event that a region becomes unavailable, you can use {{site.data.keyword.contdelivery_short}} in another region. It is recommended to use an alternate region based on geographic proximity and data sovereignty; however, you can choose any alternate region that suits your requirements.
| Geography | Region | HA Status |
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| Asia-Pacific | Sydney (au-syd) |
MZR |
| Asia-Pacific | Tokyo (jp-tok) |
MZR |
| Europe | Frankfurt (eu-de) |
MZR |
| Europe | London (eu-gb) |
MZR |
| North America | Dallas (us-south) |
MZR |
| North America | Montreal (ca-mon) |
SC-MZR |
| North America | Toronto (ca-tor) |
MZR |
| North America | Washington (us-east) |
MZR |
| South America | São Paulo (br-sao) |
MZR |
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Where:
- A geography is a geographic area or larger political body that contains one or more regions.
- A region is a defined geographic territory.
- A region might be a specific postal code area, a town, a city, a state, a group of states, or even a group of countries.
- A region contains multiple availability zones to meet local access, low latency, and security requirements for the region.
- MZR means multi-zone region. Learn more.
- SC-MZR means single-campus multi-zone region. Learn mode.