Availability zones and regions for Cloudera Public Cloud
Cloudera Public Cloud consists of two components, that is Cloudera Control Plane and Cloudera workload clusters.
Cloudera Control Plane regions
Cloudera fully operates and manages the Cloudera Public Cloud Control Plane, and provides it as a service to all of the customers in a multi-tenant manner. Cloudera Control Plane is deployed in a few separate geographic regions to satisfy the latency and data residency requirements.
| Regions | us-west-1 | eu-1 | ap-1 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Location | United States | Germany | Australia |
| Year opened | 2019 | 2021 | 2021 |
Every Cloudera Account, also called a tenant, belongs to a single Cloudera Control Plane region and the account data and metadata are kept within the specified geographic boundaries. The Cloudera Control Plane regions are isolated from each other and the Cloudera accounts cannot access data from the other Control Plane regions.
Cloudera Control Plane runs in a Public Cloud context, that is it provides redundant hardware, multiple availability zone support, fast failover capabilities, and high availability Service Level Agreement (SLA). Cloudera is responsible for all the high availability, data durability, and disaster-recovery policies for the Control Plane.
Cloudera Public Cloud workload, regions, and availability zones
- Availability Zone (AZ)
- Contains one or more data centers. These data centers are provided with
redundant power, cooling, and networking design. Typically, the availability
zones are located close enough to each other to provide a very low latency
(<2ms) between them in the same region. An availability zone is a failure
domain, that is it might get isolated or unavailable from other AZs in the
region due to malicious software deployments or natural disaster events such
as earthquakes or tornadoes.
By default, Cloudera Public Cloud provisions the Data Lake, FreeIPA, and the Data Hubs in a single AWS or Azure availability zone, but you can optionally choose to deploy them across multiple availability zones (multi-AZ). It is possible to enable it for all the components or for just a few components.
- Region
-
Collection of a minimum of three availability zones. A region is also a physical location and an independent geographic area. All availability zones within a region share low latency, high-bandwidth dedicated networking. The availability zones within a region are physically isolated and separated by meaningful distances. However, natural disasters or other events might still cause region-wide outages.
Cloudera supports more than 80 regions in three different cloud providers which include AWS region,Azure region, and GCP region.
- Cloudera workloads
- Run on VPCs / VNets in your cloud accounts in AWS, Azure, or GCP. When you create a Cloudera environment in the Cloudera Management Console, you must specify the region, and then create your Cloudera workloads in the Cloudera environment. You can create workloads in any of the regional Cloudera Control Planes (US, APAC, or EU).
By default, Cloudera Public Cloud provisions the environment, Data Lake, and the Data Hubs in a single AWS or Azure availability zone, but you can optionally choose to deploy them across multiple availability zones (multi-AZ). However not all Data Hub templates can be deployed across multiple availability zones.
For more information about availability zones and regions, see AWS's global infrastructure regions & AZs, Azure's availability zones and GCP's geography and regions.
