IBM Cloud

13 multizone regions with three zones each, from Dallas to Chennai, plus IBM Sovereign Core for regulated workloads.

Hyperscale cloud

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Footprint, AI and capex

Type Hyperscale cloud, internal hyperscaler, AI cloud or regional alternative.
Hyperscale cloud 1
Regions Live cloud regions, from the operator's own region page or region list.
13 1
Zones Availability zones (availability domains at Oracle) the operator states across its regions.
39 1
Countries Countries and territories with at least one live region, counted from the operator's region list.
9 1
Named locations Deployment locations the operator names where it publishes no region count.
Not published
Data centers Data center count in the operator's own words.
Not published
Owned vs leased What the operator discloses about owning or leasing its facilities.
Not published
AI capacity Announced AI data center capacity in GW or MW, or the scale of a named AI cluster.
Not published
AI compute The operator's AI accelerators, instances or internal AI platform.
VPC GPU profiles: NVIDIA H100 and H200 2
Latest capex Latest reported capital expenditure with its period, plus guidance where given. Group-wide figures for parent companies.
USD 457m net capex (IBM) in Q3 2026 3
Investment plan Multi-year AI and cloud investment programs, separate from annual capex.
Not published
Sovereign cloud Named sovereign, government or in-country cloud offerings.
IBM Sovereign Core 4

Sources

  1. IBM Cloud regions and data centers accessed 2026-11-11
  2. IBM VPC profiles accessed 2026-11-11
  3. IBM Q3 2026 results accessed 2026-11-11
  4. IBM Sovereign Core accessed 2026-11-11

IBM Cloud regions

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13 live regions in 9 countries and territories. By country: Canada2, India2, Japan2, United States2, Australia1, Brazil1, Germany1, Spain1, United Kingdom1.

IBM Cloud cloud regions
Region Code Location Country Zones Launched Status
IBM Cloud Sydney au-syd Sydney Australia 3 — Live
IBM Cloud São Paulo br-sao São Paulo Brazil 3 — Live
IBM Cloud Montreal ca-mon Montreal Canada 3 — Live
IBM Cloud Toronto ca-tor Toronto Canada 3 — Live
IBM Cloud Frankfurt eu-de Frankfurt Germany 3 — Live
IBM Cloud Chennai in-che Chennai India 3 — Live
IBM Cloud Mumbai in-mum Mumbai India 3 — Live
IBM Cloud Osaka jp-osa Osaka Japan 3 — Live
IBM Cloud Tokyo jp-tok Tokyo Japan 3 — Live
IBM Cloud Madrid eu-es Madrid Spain 3 — Live
IBM Cloud London eu-gb London United Kingdom 3 — Live
IBM Cloud Dallas us-south Dallas United States 3 — Live
IBM Cloud Washington DC us-east Washington DC United States 3 — Live
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