Locations

Datum’s infrastructure footprint is organized into points of presence (PoPs) that are packaged into Regions and Availability Zones (AZs). See our Locations for a visual overview of all PoPs. Each Region represents a specific geographic and network boundary, while each AZ provides independent capacity within that Region. This structure supports predictable latency, fault isolation, and regulatory alignment. Similar to the large public clouds, Datum uses a country-anchored naming format with the following elements:

Field	Description
Geography	Two-letter ISO country code (example: US, DE, IN)
Cardinal Direction	Directional indicator within the country: north, south, east, west, or central.
Number	Region index within that location.
Count	Availability Zone identifier: a, b, c, etc.

For example, here is how we describe the first region and availability zone in the eastern US.

<Geography>-<Location>-<Number><Count>

Example: us-east-1a Regions and AZs are defined by distance and policy boundaries.

When Points of Presence in the same country are separated by more than about 5 milliseconds round-trip time (RTT), Datum creates a new Region.
If multiple PoPs exist in the same metro but operate independently (for example, separate network clusters or facilities), they become separate AZs. Increment the Count value to the next letter.
If PoPs are within about 5 milliseconds RTT and part of the same operational domain, they remain in the same Region. Example: us-east-1a, us-east-1b, us-east-1c.

Note: regulatory and export control requirements may restrict or define where data and workloads can reside. These boundaries take precedence over latency-based placement rules.

Regions

Region Code	Metropolitan Area
ae-north-1	Dubai
au-east-1	Sydney
br-east-1	São Paolo
ca-east-1	Toronto
cl-central-1	Santiago
de-central-1	Frankfurt
gb-south-1	London
in-west-1	Mumbai
jp-east-1	Tokyo
nl-west-1	Amsterdam
sg-central-1	Singapore
us-central-1	Dallas
us-east-1	Ashburn
us-east-2	New York City
us-west-1	San Jose, California
za-central-1	Johannesburg

Check what’s available to your project

The table above is Datum’s global footprint. What you can deploy into is a narrower, per-project question. Datum represents each usable location as a Location resource, and the ones inside your project’s own control plane are the ones available to you. datumctl get locations lists them:

datumctl get locations --project <project-id>

NAME           CLASS           CITY   AGE   READY   REASON
us-central-1   datum-managed   DFW    20h
us-east-1      datum-managed   IAD    20h

Each row is a location you can place work in today. NAME is the identifier you reference elsewhere, and matches the region codes in the table above: us-central-1 is Dallas, us-east-1 is Ashburn. CITY is the airport-style code for the metro it serves. CLASS is the kind of capacity behind it, where datum-managed is Datum’s own footprint.

This list reflects your active project scope. If a location you expect is missing, confirm you are pointed at the right project. See Contexts & scoping.

For the full definition of a location, including its topology, request YAML or JSON:

datumctl get location us-central-1 --project <project-id> -o yaml

apiVersion: locations.miloapis.com/v1alpha1
kind: Location
metadata:
  name: us-central-1
spec:
  locationClassRef:
    name: datum-managed
  topology:
    topology.datum.net/city-code: DFW
    topology.datum.net/region: us-central-1

Region tracing

Visit https://edge.datum.net/ to learn which Datum Region and availability zone you’re reaching via anycast. If you’re using Datum Tunnels, this will be your entrypoint into our network. You can also access our zones and locations programmatically:

JSON structured response https://edge.datum.net/api/edge-info
Plaintext https://edge.datum.net/api/trace

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