Database Regions

[stexxart]

I have a few questions about where a database is deployed and the global distribution of the database infrastructure:

1. What region(s) are databases deployed to during the beta?
2. What region(s) will be supported in the near future, and is there a timeframe on this?
3. Are multi-region setups available?

We're looking to deploy a database in Australia & Ireland.

[iheanyi]

Hey there @stexxart, thanks for asking the question!

1. During the beta, databases are deployed to the eastern United States, in Northern Virignia.
2. Right now, we plan on adding support for Oregon and Dublin next, while we're still considering options for what further regions to add.
3. By multi-region, could you expand further? Your main database branch will be able to run in one region, but users will be able to create other branches in other regions if they so choose.

Let me know if you have any further questions!

[stexxart]

Hi @iheanyi, thanks for the response!

2. Any chance of Australia, PlanetScale could meet all our needs knowing that Ireland is now available?
3. That's clear, thanks. What about region-based sharding, so we can segment data by location?

[iheanyi]

@stexxart No problem at all! Sorry for the delayed response.

2. If there is enough demand to warrant supporting Australia, we maybe would. Demand isn't there yet. There will be options for provisioning a dedicated tenant for your organization in the Australia region, if you would be interested.
3. As for region-based sharding, this is on the roadmap but we don't have an estimated timeline for this just yet.

[abriginets]

I would say for covering the whole globe you would need to additionally have the following countries in your regions list:

• Bahrain (Middle East)
• Capetown (South Africa)
• Hong-Kong and Tokyo (Asia)
• Sydney (Australia)
• Sao Paulo (South America)

Also would definitely recommend adding Russia region as soon as they make it available.

[ghazninattarshah]

When is it coming to Asia/India? with support for multi region?

[mscoutermarsh]

Mumbai, Singapore and Tokyo are now available!

[JoshStwrt]

If you can get Sydney up and running, I'm sold!

[tbarn]

Just in case you missed it, we released it on Friday!

[akaufmann]

I hope that eu-central-1 (Frankfurt) will be added to the list in the near future. 🙂

[tbarn]

Just in case you missed it, we released it on Friday!

[bigint]

All this regions would be super cool, cuz vercel has it

PlanetScale and Vercel is a great combo 🤗

[irvile]

hi @iheanyi, any news about come to São Paulo, Brazil? we need you planetscale.

[tbarn]

Just in case you missed it, we released it on Friday!

[econic]

I'm worrying that the lack of Frankfurt, Germany is actually a dealbreaker for us.
Cloudping reports ~30 for Frankfurt<>Dublin, so getting this down to 3 is quite the difference.

But we'll do some testing, maybe it works...

[tiaringhio]

Would also love a location in Germany, Dublin works but Frankfurt would be way better for southern European infrastructure

[tbarn]

Frankfurt region now exists! We just released it on Friday.

[FabrizioTorrico]

Don't forget south america!🇦🇷

[tbarn]

Not exactly where you are requesting, but as of Friday we have a São Paulo region.

[fooforge]

Hey all,

I'm happy to announce that we have added three more regions across the globe: Frankfurt (eu-central-1), Sydney (ap-southeast-2), and Sao Paulo (sa-east-1). Check these out, and if you hit any snags reach out. Thanks! 😄

[JoshStwrt]

Amazing @fooforge! 🔥

[lewis45454]

When will there be a London region?

[tbarn]

Just in case you missed it, AWS eu-west-2 (London) was added a few months ago.

[e2goon]

Seoul region? 😢

[devhyunjae]

We neeeeeed Seoul 🤩

[axyjo]

Any chance of deploying to ca-central-1?

[brettr91]

Yeah, this would be great. Really can't use the service within Canada, as most private organizations require data to be held within Canada.

[jmarus]

+1 for Canada. They really should add at least once Canadian region.

[sunappio]

+1 for Canada

[asagtc]

Hello, Any plans to add Bahrain?

[Suyashtnt]

af-south-1 would be incredibly helpful

[devunt]

Not having Seoul (ap-northeast-2) region is a dealbreaker to adapt Planetscale (we are using pgsql for now but we are now even considering migrating to mysql if Planetscale had Seoul region)

[tbarn]

We are looking into adding this region. No timeline, but it's definitely being considered.

[jeffminsungkim]

We are looking into adding this region. No timeline, but it's definitely being considered.

Any updates on Seoul region support? Even a rough timeline would be helpful.

[tbarn]

It's in progress!

[Lwachira]

What would it take to get South Africa on the list, we currently have AWS Cape Town (cpt1)

I just moved my vercel functions to SA and have seen much improved speeds but my PS DB is in London, previously both were using London.

I'll probably move back to London after testing.

[KrisStadler]

@Lwachira interested to know the performance differences between having the serverless functions in London vs Cape Town with the DB based in London. Would be nice if you can share some details of your finding here please. 😄

[Lwachira]

Hi! @KrisStadler , no problem, the app is way faster at initial load when it's in CPT and the planetscale db is in London, each DB query takes seconds instead of milliseconds, levels of 4 - 10 seconds, that's mostly cause of the distance.

When they are next to each other, the app is way faster (more so now thanks to the work the Prisma team has done), cold starts are brutal for my app but after that, it's fairly quick, milliseconds instead of seconds. I've perfected the queries to return 100% filtered data, so that helped as well.

A golden win would be getting a db instance in South Africa, in a year ps or someone else will figure this out, either ps will figure out edge db or someone else will.

[KrisStadler]

Thanks for the feedback @Lwachira, also noticed the 4 - 10 second delay of DB queries between CPT and London. Probably going to replicate something similar while I wait for the ps CPT region to come online.

[KrisStadler]

Also want to know the status on AWS Cape Town region. My Vercel application is configured to use CPT serverless functions, but the closest I can get the DB is London :(

[paulm17]

Is there an official regions list?

[tbarn]

Yup! https://planetscale.com/docs/concepts/regions#available-regions

[pjlast]

Would like to add another voice to the "please open up the Cape Town region" list, as AWS does have an af-south-1 region (as already mentioned) 🙏

[Reghardt]

Any news on a Cape Town Region? It will really make life easier for devs this side of the world.

[kimagroup]

Hello, is there possibility to add Bahrain and Cape town regions, which are really important for making everything global?

[przemekciacka]

Waiting for europe-central2 (GCP based in Warsaw, Poland 🇵🇱) 🫣

[shaun-fitzgibbon]

Any News on adding a af-south-1 location ?

[Lwachira]

Thank you for prompting again. My gut instinct is there is many of us but it's hard to see everyone to justify the business expansion. The more people who add their 2cents the better.