Regions in The Rackspace Cloud

When you create new Rackspace cloud resources, it's important to understand what a region is and how to use regions effectively.

What is a Region?

A region is a collection of one or more data centers interconnected by a low-latency, high-bandwidth network. A region can be considered a "logical data center" and is designated by the three-letter code for a nearby airport (such as DFW for Dallas/Fort Worth).

Following is a list of available Rackspace Cloud based on OpenStack Flex Regions

For more information on the new iteration of the Rackspace Cloud, check out our documentation .

• Dallas-Fort Worth (DFW3)
• San Jose (SJC3)
• Northern Virginia (IAD3)

For more information about Rackspace data centers, see the Global Infrastructure page.

Region Availability

Additional Regions will be made available in the future.

Benefits of Using the Same Region

Locating all of your Rackspace infrastructure in the same region provides the following benefits:

• Geographic Choice - You can provision resources closer to your end users or other applications, data centers, clouds, and so on. This choice becomes increasingly important with hybrid on-premises cloud scenarios.

• Network Performance - All resources provisioned within a region have internal connectivity over a private, low latency, high bandwidth network. The physical distance between resources is small and improves the speed of network traffic and throughput.

• Free Bandwidth - All communication between resources in the same region over private networks is free.