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Migrating resources to a different data center

Migrating resources to a different data center

IBM Cloud®'s investments in data center infrastructure include rolling out newer data centers and multizone regions (MZRs) and closing older data centers that are unsuitable for upgrading.

For a current list of data centers, see Locations for resource deployment .

For information on data center closures, see Data center migrations.

Migrating your resources

To identify your impacted resources, take advantage of special offers, or learn about recommended configurations, use one of the following options to contact the IBM 24x7 Client Success team:

To avoid any disruption to your service, please complete the following steps to migrate your resources from your current data center to your new location:

  • Restore your backup into a new database, in a new region. For more information, see Managing Cloud Databases backups.
  • For an IBM Cloud® Databases for PostgreSQL deployment, you can deploy Read Replicas into a new region and turn that Read Replica into a stand-alone database.