IBM Db2 on Cloud

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Fully managed Db2 enterprise relational database with automatic HA, encryption at rest and in flight, BLU columnar acceleration, Oracle compatibility mode, and integration with watsonx.data for lakehouse workloads

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Jurisdictional exposure

Provider HQ

USArmonk, USA

Subject to CLOUD Act, FISA-702, DPF

Region locations

APACEUUKUSOther14 regions across 5 jurisdictions

Sovereign option

Yes — 1 sovereign-flagged region available

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Attributes

Oracle Compat Mode: Yes

Sub-services (3)

Standard Plan

Shared infrastructure with elastic storage and auto-scaling compute

Enterprise Plan

Dedicated hardware with customer-isolated storage and HA replicas

BLU Acceleration

In-memory columnar engine for mixed OLTP and OLAP workloads

Compliance & Certifications

This service is attested for the following frameworks. Always verify with the provider before relying on a specific compliance posture.

GDPR SOC 2 ISO 27001 HIPAA PCI DSS FedRAMP

Where this runs

14 regions

9 countries

1sovereign

Sovereign regions (1)

Frankfurt (Financial Services) · FrankfurtIBM Cloud for Financial Services

Commercial regions (13)

Europe (4)

Frankfurt
Frankfurt 2
Madrid
London

North America (4)

Montreal
Toronto
Dallas
Washington DC

South America (1)

São Paulo

Asia (3)

Chennai
Osaka
Tokyo

Oceania (1)

Sydney

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Pricing

Pricing model:subscription