Craft Cloud Regions

Craft Cloud is currently available in North America, Europe, and Asia/Pacific. You select a region when creating a new project.

A project’s region determines where your database and compute resources are located, but not your assets.

Choosing a Region #

Your project should live in the same region that your client (or your client’s audience) is in. Projects cannot be moved between regions, but you are welcome to deploy different projects in different regions.

Cloud pricing is consistent across regions.

Caching #

The primary incentive to select a region is a reduction in latency for your audience and administrators. This typically only impacts uncached or dynamic responses that reach your application (like control panel requests). Any request that can be served from our global edge cache or CDN (like statically-cached HTML documents, build artifacts, and assets) will generally not be impacted by your selection.

Data Custodianship #

We encourage all customers to research their country’s data transfer laws. Craft Cloud’s management layer is deployed in the United States, but your project’s compute resources and database are always located in the chosen region. Assets uploaded to Cloud filesystems cannot be kept in a single region, by virtue of the underlying infrastructure’s geographic redundancy and delivery network.

Datacenter Geography #

Our region-specific infrastructure lives in these countries:

• North America: United States
• Europe: Germany
• Asia/Pacific: Australia

Timezones #

Craft Cloud’s entire infrastructure uses UTC clocks. Select the appropriate timezone (in Settings → General) when setting up your Craft installation to display date information correctly for your region. Dates in the database are stored in the system’s timezone.

Backups are captured nightly, respective of your chosen region.