When creating an index, you must choose the cloud region where you want the index to be hosted.

Regions available for serverless indexes

The following cloud regions are available for serverless indexes:

CloudRegionSupported plansAvailability phase
awsus-east-1 (Virginia)Starter, Standard, EnterpriseGeneral availability
awsus-west-2 (Oregon)Standard, EnterpriseGeneral availability
awseu-west-1 (Ireland)Standard, EnterpriseGeneral availability
gcpus-central1 (Iowa)Standard, EnterpriseGeneral availability
gcpeurope-west4 (Netherlands)Standard, EnterpriseGeneral availability
azureeastus2 (Virginia)Standard, EnterpriseGeneral availability

The cloud and region cannot be changed after a serverless index is created.

On the free Starter plan, you can create serverless indexes in the us-east-1 region of AWS only. To create indexes in other regions, upgrade your plan.

Regions available for pod-based indexes

The following cloud regions are available for pod-based indexes:

CloudRegionEnvironment
GCPus-west-1 (N. California)us-west1-gcp
GCPus-central-1 (Iowa)us-central1-gcp
GCPus-west-4 (Las Vegas)us-west4-gcp
GCPus-east-4 (Virginia)us-east4-gcp
GCPnorthamerica-northeast-1northamerica-northeast1-gcp
GCPasia-northeast-1 (Japan)asia-northeast1-gcp
GCPasia-southeast-1 (Singapore)asia-southeast1-gcp
GCPus-east-1 (South Carolina)us-east1-gcp
GCPeu-west-1 (Belgium)eu-west1-gcp
GCPeu-west-4 (Netherlands)eu-west4-gcp
AWSus-east-1 (Virginia)us-east-1-aws
Azureeastus (Virginia)eastus-azure

Contact us if you need a dedicated deployment in other regions.

The environment cannot be changed after the index is created.