Globally, 13 new cloud regions were launched in 2024. This marks a significant slowdown in new cloud region deployment.
There hasn't been a year with fewer than 20 new regions since 2017. As you may recall, 26 regions launched in 2023, 24 in 2022, 27 in 2021, and 25 in 2020. At the peak in 2019, 41 regions came online.
In 2023, cloud service providers officially launched data residency and sovereign regions. In the new Cloud and WAN update—which just went live—we discuss what these two terms mean (and how they differ).
We also talk about AI and GPU compute-as-a-service, planned cloud regions, content delivery networks, and more.
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