# Regional availability for services and features #

IBM watsonx is deployed on the IBM Cloud multi\-zone region network\. The availability of services and features can vary across regional data centers\.

You can view the regional availability for every service in the [Services catalog](https://dataplatform.cloud.ibm.com/data/catalog?target=services&context=wx)\.

## Regional availability of the Watson Studio and Watson Machine Learning services ##

Watsonx\.ai includes the Watson Studio and Watson Machine Learning services to provide foundation and machine learning model tools\.

The Watson Studio and Watson Machine Learning services are available in the following regional data centers:

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 *  Dallas (us\-south), in Texas US
 *  Frankfurt (eu\-de), in Germany

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### Regional availability of foundation models ###

The following table shows the IBM Cloud data centers where each foundation model is available\. A checkmark indicates that the model is hosted in the region\.

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Table 1\. IBM Cloud data center support

| Model name                 | Dallas | Frankfurt |
| -------------------------- | ------ | --------- |
| flan\-t5\-xl\-3b           | ✓      |           |
| flan\-t5\-xxl\-11b         | ✓      | ✓         |
| flan\-ul2\-20b             | ✓      | ✓         |
| gpt\-neox\-20b             | ✓      | ✓         |
| granite\-13b\-chat\-v2     | ✓      | ✓         |
| granite\-13b\-chat\-v1     | ✓      | ✓         |
| granite\-13b\-instruct\-v2 | ✓      | ✓         |
| granite\-13b\-instruct\-v1 | ✓      | ✓         |
| llama\-2\-13b\-chat        | ✓      | ✓         |
| llama\-2\-70b\-chat        | ✓      | ✓         |
| mpt\-7b\-instruct2         | ✓      | ✓         |
| mt0\-xxl\-13b              | ✓      | ✓         |
| starcoder\-15\.5b          | ✓      | ✓         |

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### Tool and environment limitations for the Frankfurt region ###

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Table 2\. Frankfurt regional limitations

| Service       | Limitation                                                                                                                            |
| ------------- | ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- |
| Watson Studio | If you need a Spark runtime, you must use the [Spark environment](https://dataplatform.cloud.ibm.com/docs/content/wsj/analyze-data/jupyter-spark.html) in Watson Studio for the SPSS Modeler and notebook editor tools\. |
| Watson Studio | [Synthetic Data Generator](https://dataplatform.cloud.ibm.com/docs/content/wsj/synthetic/synthetic_data_overview_sd.html) is not supported\.                                                                                       |
| Watson Studio | [Tuning Studio](https://dataplatform.cloud.ibm.com/docs/content/wsj/analyze-data/fm-tuning-studio.html) is not supported\.                                                                                                  |

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## Regional availability of watsonx\.governance ##

Watsonx\.governance Lite and Essentials plans are available only in the Dallas region\.

## Regional availability of Watson OpenScale ##

Watson OpenScale legacy plans are available only in the Frankfurt region\.

## Regional availability of the Cloud Object Storage service ##

The region for the Cloud Object Storage service is **Global**\. Cloud Object Storage buckets for workspaces are Regional buckets\. For more information, see [IBM Cloud docs: Cloud Object Storage endpoints and storage locations](https://cloud.ibm.com/docs/cloud-object-storage?topic=cloud-object-storage-endpoints)\.

## Learn more ##

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 *  [IBM Cloud docs: IBM Cloud global data centers](https://www.ibm.com/cloud/data-centers)
 *  [Services in the IBM watsonx catalog](https://dataplatform.cloud.ibm.com/docs/content/svc-welcome/cloud-services.html)

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**Parent topic:**[Services and integrations](https://dataplatform.cloud.ibm.com/docs/content/wsj/admin/svc-int.html)

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