Geographic regions

Konnect allows you to host and operate your cloud instance in a geographic region that you specify. This is important for data privacy and regulatory compliance for you organization.

Geographic regions allow you to also operate Konnect in a similar geo to your users and their infrastructure applications.

Geo-specific objects

Certain objects, like Consumers and Gateway Services, inside your Konnect instance are geo-specific. This means that if you create one of these objects in an instance of Konnect that is deployed in a particular geo, that object won’t exist in a different geo.

Only authentication, billing, and usage is shared between Konnect geos.

The following objects are geo-specific:

Supported geos

Control planes

Konnect Control Planes support the following geos:

  • AU (Australia)
  • EU (Europe)
  • ME (Middle East)
  • US (United States)
  • IN (India)

Dedicated Cloud Gateways

Konnect Dedicated Cloud Gateways support the following geos:

AWS

  • North America:
    • Ohio (us-east-2)
    • Oregon (us-west-2)
    • N. Virginia (us-east-1)
    • N. California(us-west-1)
    • Montreal (ca-central-1)
  • Europe:
    • Frankfurt (eu-central-1)
    • Ireland (eu-west-1)
    • London (eu-west-2)
    • Paris (eu-west-3)
    • Zurich (eu-central-2)
  • Asia Pacific:
    • Tokyo (ap-northeast-1)
    • Singapore (ap-southeast-1)
    • Sydney (ap-southeast-2)
    • Mumbai (ap-south-1)
    • Hyderabad (ap-south-2)
    • Seoul (ap-northeast-2)
  • Middle East, and Africa
    • United Arab Emirates (me-central-1)

Azure

  • North America:
    • Virginia (eastus2)
    • Washington (westus2)
  • Europe:
    • Frankfurt (germanywestcentral)
    • UK South (uksouth)
    • Ireland (northeurope)
    • France (francecentral)

Google

  • North America:
    • South Carolina (us-east1)
    • Montreal (northamerica-northeast1)
  • Europe:
    • Belgium (europe-west1)
  • Asia Pacific:
    • Tokyo (asia-northeast1)

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