Regional availability for services and features on IBM Cloud
IBM watsonx is deployed on the IBM Cloud multi-zone region network. The availability of services and features can vary across regional data centers.
View the regional availability for every service in the Services catalog.
Regional availability of the watsonx services
IBM watsonx is available in the following regional data centers:
- Dallas (us-south), in Texas US
- Frankfurt (eu-de), in Germany
- London (eu-gb), in England
- Tokyo (jp-tok), in Japan
- Sydney (au-syd), in Australia
- Toronto (ca-tor), in Canada
You can access the watsonx.ai Studio, watsonx.ai Runtime, and watsonx.governance services from all regional data centers.
Regional availability of the Cloud Object Storage service
The region for the Cloud Object Storage service is Global. Cloud Object Storage buckets for workspaces are Regional buckets. For more information, see IBM Cloud docs: Cloud Object Storage endpoints and storage locations.
Regional availability of watsonx features
Some features and tools for the watsonx.ai Studio, watsonx.ai Runtime, and watsonx.governance services are not available in every region.
The following table lists the regional availability of features that are not available in all regions. Features that are available in all regions are not listed.
| Feature | Platform/Service | Dallas | Frankfurt | London | Sydney | Tokyo | Toronto |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Tuning Studio | watsonx.ai Studio | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | |
| IBM Orchestration Pipelines | watsonx.ai Studio | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | |||
| RStudio | watsonx.ai Studio | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ||
| Use multibyte characters in user-input fields in Data Refinery. | watsonx.ai Studio | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | |
| Custom foundation models | watsonx.ai Runtime | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ||
| Deploy on demand foundation models | watsonx.ai Runtime | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ||
Extracting key-value pair data in the generic_with_semantic mode with the text extraction API |
watsonx.ai Runtime | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ||
| Evaluation Studio | watsonx.governance | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ||
| Tuned model evaluations | watsonx.governance | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | |||
| Only one instance per region | watsonx.governance | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ||
| Integration with Governance console | watsonx.governance | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | |
| Audio input with watsonx.ai chat API | watsonx.ai Runtime | ✓ |
Regional compliance with information security and privacy standards
Depending on the data center that you work with, different services might comply with different information security and privacy standards. For details, see the Regional compliance with information security and privacy standards table.
| Compliance Program | Service | Dallas | Frankfurt | London | Sydney | Tokyo | Toronto |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| ISO/IEC 27001 | watsonx.ai Studio (Formerly known as Watson Studio) | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ |
| ISO/IEC 27001 | watsonx.ai Runtime (Formerly known as Watson Machine Learning) | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ |
| ISO/IEC 27001 | watsonx.ai | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ |
| ISO/IEC 27017 | watsonx.ai Studio (Formerly known as Watson Studio) | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ |
| ISO/IEC 27017 | watsonx.ai Runtime (Formerly known as Watson Machine Learning) | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ |
| ISO/IEC 27017 | watsonx.ai | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ |
| ISO/IEC 27018 | watsonx.ai Studio (Formerly known as Watson Studio) | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ |
| ISO/IEC 27018 | watsonx.ai Runtime (Formerly known as Watson Machine Learning) | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ |
| ISO/IEC 27018 | watsonx.ai | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ |
| HIPAA | watsonx.ai Studio (Formerly known as Watson Studio) | ✓ | |||||
| HIPAA | watsonx.ai Runtime (Formerly known as Watson Machine Learning) | ✓ | |||||
| SOC1 Type2 | watsonx.ai Studio (Formerly known as Watson Studio) | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ||
| SOC1 Type2 | watsonx.ai Runtime (Formerly known as Watson Machine Learning) | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ||
| SOC1 Type2 | watsonx.ai | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ||
| SOC2 Type2 | watsonx.ai Studio (Formerly known as Watson Studio) | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ||
| SOC2 Type2 | watsonx.ai Runtime (Formerly known as Watson Machine Learning) | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ||
| SOC2 Type2 | watsonx.ai | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ |
Regional availability of foundation models
The regional availability of foundation models varies based on how the model is deployed in watsonx.ai, the model type, and the tasks you perform with the foundation model.
Based on your use case, see:
- Regional availability of provided foundation models that are ready to use
- Regional availability of deploy on demand foundation models
- Regional availability of foundation model tuning
- Regional availability of encoder-only models
Regional availability of provided foundation models that are ready to use
The following table shows the IBM Cloud data centers where you can inference the foundation models that are provided by IBM. A checkmark indicates that the model is hosted in the region.
| Model name | Dallas | Frankfurt | London | Sydney | Tokyo | Toronto |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| allam-1-13b-instruct | ✓ | |||||
| elyza-japanese-llama-2-7b-instruct | ✓ | |||||
| flan-t5-xl-3b | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ||
| flan-t5-xxl-11b | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ||
| flan-ul2-20b | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ||
| granite-3-3-8b-instruct | ✓ | ✓ | ||||
| granite-13b-instruct-v2 | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | |
| granite-8b-japanese | ✓ | |||||
| granite-3-2-8b-instruct | ✓ | |||||
| granite-3-2b-instruct | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | |
| granite-3-8b-instruct | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ |
| granite-guardian-3-2b | ✓ | ✓ | ||||
| granite-guardian-3-8b | ✓ | ✓ | ||||
| granite-3b-code-instruct | ✓ | |||||
| granite-8b-code-instruct | ✓ | ✓ | ||||
| granite-20b-code-instruct | ✓ | ✓ | ||||
| granite-34b-code-instruct | ✓ | ✓ | ||||
| granite-vision-3-2-2b | ✓ | |||||
| jais-13b-chat | ✓ | |||||
| llama-4-maverick-17b-128e-instruct-fp8 | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | |||
| llama-4-scout-17b-16e-instruct | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | |||
| llama-3-3-70b-instruct | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | |
| llama-3-2-1b-instruct | ✓ | |||||
| llama-3-2-3b-instruct | ✓ | |||||
| llama-3-2-11b-vision-instruct | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | |
| llama-3-2-90b-vision-instruct | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | |||
| llama-guard-3-11b-vision | ✓ | ✓ | ||||
| llama-3-405b-instruct | ✓ | |||||
| llama-2-13b-chat | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ||
| mistral-large | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | |
| mistral-medium-2505 | ✓ | |||||
| mistral-small-3-1-24b-instruct-2503 | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | |||
| mistral-small-24b-instruct-2501 | ✓ | |||||
| mixtral-8x7b-instruct-v01 | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ||
| pixtral-12b | ✓ | ✓ |
Regional availability of deploy on demand foundation models
The following table shows the IBM Cloud data centers where you can deploy foundation models on-demand for the dedicated use of your organization. A checkmark indicates that the model is hosted in the region.
| Model name | Dallas | Frankfurt | London | Sydney | Tokyo | Toronto |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| granite-3-1-8b-base | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ||
| granite-3-3-8b-instruct | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ||
| granite-3-3-2b-instruct | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ||
| granite-3-8b-base | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ||
| granite-7b-lab | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ||
| granite-8b-japanese | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ||
| granite-20b-multilingual | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ||
| granite-13b-chat-v2 | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ||
| granite-13b-instruct-v2 | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ||
| granite-3b-code-instruct | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ||
| granite-8b-code-instruct | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ||
| granite-20b-code-instruct | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ||
| granite-34b-code-instruct | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ||
| granite-20b-code-base-schema-linking | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ||
| granite-20b-code-base-sql-gen | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ||
| allam-1-13b-instruct | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ||
| codellama-34b-instruct-hf | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ||
| deepseek-r1-distill-llama-8b | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ||
| deepseek-r1-distill-llama-70b | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ||
| eurollm-1-7b-instruct | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ||
| eurollm-9b-instruct | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ||
| flan-t5-xl-3b | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ||
| flan-t5-xxl-11b | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ||
| flan-ul2-20b | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ||
| llama-2-13b-chat | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ||
| llama-2-70b-chat | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ||
| llama-3-8b-instruct | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ||
| llama-3-70b-instruct | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ||
| llama-3-1-8b | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ||
| llama-3-1-8b-instruct | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ||
| llama-3-1-70b | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ||
| llama-3-1-70b-instruct | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ||
| llama-3-2-11b-vision-instruct | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ||
| llama-3-3-70b-instruct | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ||
| llama-3-3-70b-instruct-hf | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ||
| mistral-large-instruct-2407 | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ||
| mistral-large-instruct-2411 | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ||
| mistral-nemo-instruct-2407 | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ||
| mixtral-8x7b-base | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ||
| mixtral-8x7b-instruct-v01 | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ||
| mt0-xxl-13b | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ||
| poro-34b-chat | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ |
Regional availability of foundation model tuning
The following table shows the IBM Cloud data centers where tuning a foundation model is supported and the models that can be fine tuned. A checkmark indicates that you can use the Tuning Studio to tune the foundation model in the region.
| Model name | Dallas | Frankfurt | London | Sydney | Tokyo | Toronto |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| flan-t5-xl-3b | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ||
| granite-13b-instruct-v2 | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ |
Regional availability of encoder-only models
The following table shows the IBM Cloud data centers where embedding models and reranker models are available. A checkmark indicates that you can use the model in the region.
| Model | Dallas | Frankfurt | London | Sydney | Tokyo | Toronto |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| all-minilm-l6-v2 | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ||
| all-minilm-l12-v2 | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ |
| granite-embedding-107m-multilingual | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | |
| granite-embedding-278m-multilingual | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | |
| ms-marco-minilm-l-12-v2 | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ |
| multilingual-e5-large | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ |
| slate.125m.english.rtrvr-v2 | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ |
| slate.125m.english.rtrvr | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ||
| slate.30m.english.rtrvr-v2 | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ |
| slate.30m.english.rtrvr | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ |
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