Now in Europe: Amsterdam is our third region

You can now deploy your Cloud Apps in Amsterdam. It sits alongside Detroit and Los Angeles as a choice you make at checkout, and it is our first region outside the United States.

If your users are in Europe, or your data should stay there, this is the short version: pick EU (Amsterdam) when you order an app, and everything runs in the EU from that point on. Nothing else about how Caliber Node works changes.

Why Amsterdam

Amsterdam is one of the densest network hubs in Europe, which is exactly what you want under an app your visitors are waiting on. From the Amsterdam host itself we measured Google answering our pings in about one millisecond — for practical purposes, the networks your visitors ride are in the same room as the machine.

Two things follow from being in the EU rather than routing European traffic across the Atlantic:

• Closer to European visitors. A request from Berlin, Paris or Madrid no longer crosses an ocean and comes back. It stays on the continent.
• Data that stays in the EU. For teams who need it, your app and its database live on European soil rather than in a US datacenter.

The same platform, nothing new to learn

Amsterdam is a new location, not a new product. Everything that is true of Detroit and Los Angeles is true here:

• A real public IPv6 address on every app, alongside IPv4 — no request, no add-on.
• Your app and its database share a machine, talking over a private network that never leaves the box, so a query is microseconds rather than a round trip between buildings.
• Reached by hostname. Your app answers on <name>.cnpods.com or a custom domain you point at us, with a valid certificate on both IPv4 and IPv6.
• Our own panel, API and catalog — the same ones you already use — running on the same servers, leased from the same operator (GTHost) we use in Detroit.

How to use it

When you deploy an app, choose EU (Amsterdam) as the region. That is the whole step. Apps you already run stay exactly where they are; the region is a per-order choice, so your next one can land in Amsterdam whether or not your others do.

Don't take our word for it

The network page lists the Amsterdam host's IPv4 and IPv6 addresses so you can ping, mtr or traceroute them from wherever your users are before you spend anything. Every latency figure there was measured on our own hardware, Amsterdam included, and yours will differ — that is the point of publishing addresses you can test.

Ready to try it? Deploy an app and pick Amsterdam, or browse the app catalog first.