Citrix Cloud

Geographical Considerations

This article discusses the commercial regions that Citrix Cloud uses and the presence of Citrix Cloud commercial services within each region.

For more information about the geographical regions and service presence for Citrix’s public-sector and dedicated cloud platforms, see Other cloud platforms from Citrix.

Choose a region

When your organization is onboarded to Citrix Cloud and you sign in for the first time, you are asked to choose one of the following regions:

  • United States
  • European Union
  • Asia Pacific South

When you select a region, services hosted in that geographic region are used for actions associated with the organization where possible. Pick a region that maps to where most of your users and resources are located.

Citrix Cloud region selection page

Important notes:

  • You can choose a region only once, when your organization is onboarded. You cannot change your region later.
  • If you are located in one region and use a service in another region, any performance impacts are minimal. Citrix Cloud services are designed to be used on a global basis. For example, customers in the US that have users and connectors in Australia will see minimal impact from latency.
  • If Citrix Cloud is not supported in your region, pick a region that is closest to where most of your users and resources are located.

Service presence in each region

Most Citrix Cloud services are globally replicated. The region you select indicates a preference for where connections must be made. However, connections might still be made to other geographical regions. When a service is globally replicated, all the data of that service is stored in all regions.

Similarly, your data might be processed on a global basis by Citrix affiliates or subprocessors as necessary to perform the services.

Certain services have dedicated regional instances. Some services have US-based instances only. In these cases, connections and data are contained within the geographic region.

Where a service is not available in the region that you selected for your organization, certain information (such as authentication data) might be transferred between regions as needed.

Service US EU Asia Pacific South Notes
Citrix Cloud control plane Yes Yes Yes
Citrix Analytics for Security Yes Yes Yes
Citrix Analytics for Performance Yes Yes Yes
Application Delivery Management Yes Yes Yes See Low-touch onboarding of Citrix ADC instances using Application Delivery Management service connect in this article.
Citrix DaaS (formerly Virtual Apps and Desktops service) Yes Yes Yes Service uses the Citrix Cloud region.
Citrix DaaS Standard for Azure (formerly Virtual Apps and Desktops Standard for Azure) Yes Yes Yes Service uses the Citrix Cloud region.
Citrix DaaS Standard for Google Cloud (formerly Virtual Apps and Desktops Standard for Google Cloud) Yes No (Uses US region) No (Uses US region)
Citrix DaaS Premium for Google Cloud (formerly Virtual Apps and Desktops Premium for Google Cloud) Yes No (Uses US region) No (Uses US region)
Citrix Endpoint Management Yes Yes Yes Select from multiple locations across multiple regions. See Endpoint Management service locations in this article.
Remote Browser Isolation Service Yes Yes Yes Service uses the Citrix Cloud region.
SD-WAN Orchestrator Yes Yes Yes
Citrix Secure Internet Access Nodes/POP Multiple WW nodes; traffic routed as needed to ensure the best experience Multiple WW nodes; traffic routed as needed to ensure the best experience Multiple WW nodes; traffic routed as needed to ensure the best experience See Secure Internet Access service locations in this article.
Citrix Secure Private Access Globally replicated Globally replicated Globally replicated See Secure Private Access points of presence in this article.
Session Recording service Yes Yes Yes
Citrix Virtual Apps Essentials Yes Yes Yes Service uses the Citrix Cloud region.
Citrix Virtual Desktops Essentials Yes Yes Yes Service uses the Citrix Cloud region.
Web App Firewall Yes Yes No (Uses US region)
Workspace Environment Management; Citrix Optimization Pack Yes Yes Yes
Networking services Yes No (Uses US region) No (Uses US region)
License Usage Insights (CSPs only) Globally replicated Globally replicated Globally replicated
Citrix Gateway Access Nodes/POP Multiple WW nodes; traffic routed as needed to ensure the best experience Multiple WW nodes; traffic routed as needed to ensure the best experience Multiple WW nodes; traffic routed as needed to ensure the best experience

Note:

Certain regional Services may be delivered with entitlements to non-regional component Services set forth elsewhere in the table above, and may be used at the customer’s election.

Citrix Cloud Services use the customer’s designated region to store Customer Content and Logs, except with select Logs collected by Citrix sub-processors or for which non-regional storage is necessary for performance of the service, including for support or troubleshooting, monitoring performance, security, auditing, and to allow for cross-region authentication (such as when an EU-based support engineer needs to access a US-based environment). Customer Content and Logs may be accessed on a global basis as necessary to perform the services.

For more information about the data stored by individual services, refer to the Technical Security Overview for each service.

Low-touch onboarding of Citrix ADC instances using Application Delivery Management service connect

As a part of Application Delivery Management (ADM) service Connect-based low-touch onboarding of ADC instances:

  • If you are an existing Citrix Cloud customer, the ADM service tenant is created in the same geographical region that you selected when you created your Citrix Cloud account.
  • If you are not an existing Citrix Cloud customer, the address mentioned for that customer in the Citrix.com portal is referred. A placeholder ADM service tenant is created in the geographical region that corresponds to the region of this referred address. If you choose to onboard to Citrix Cloud in the future, a new ADM service tenant is created in the same region that you select when you create your Citrix Cloud account. Also, the data is migrated from the placeholder ADM service tenant to the new ADM service tenant.

Endpoint Management service locations

You can select one of the following Endpoint Management service locations from your home region:

  • US East
  • US West
  • EU West
  • SE Asia
  • Sydney

Secure Internet Access service locations

Traffic is routed to the following Secure Internet Access service locations based on availability and end-user proximity to ensure the best experience.

North America

  • Sterling, VA, USA
  • Toronto, Canada
  • Los Angeles, CA, USA
  • Irvine, CA, USA
  • Seattle, WA, USA
  • Denver, CO, USA
  • Charlotte, NC, USA
  • Dallas, TX, USA
  • Allen, TX, USA
  • Miami, FL, USA
  • Chicago, IL, USA
  • New York, NY, USA
  • Boston, MA, USA
  • Vancouver, Canada

South America

  • Queretaro, Mexico
  • Sao Paulo, Brazil
  • Buenos Aires, Argentina
  • Bogota, Colombia

Asia-Pacific

  • Perth, Australia
  • Sydney, Australia
  • Tokyo, Japan
  • Singapore, Singapore
  • Mumbai, India
  • Delhi, India

Africa

Johannesburg, South Africa

Middle East

  • Dubai, United Arab Emirates
  • Istanbul, Turkey

Western Europe

  • London, UK
  • Manchester, UK
  • Frankfurt, Germany
  • Düsseldorf, Germany
  • Mannheim, Germany
  • Paris, France

Europe

  • Helsinki, Finland
  • Amsterdam, Netherlands
  • Stockholm, Sweden
  • Warsaw, Poland
  • Madrid, Spain
  • Sofia, Bulgaria
  • Zurich, Switzerland
  • Milan, Italy

Secure Private Access points of presence

For a list of the points of presence (PoPs) that Secure Private Access uses to ensure continuity and quality of service for customers, see What are all the Secure Private Access PoP locations? in the Secure Private Access service documentation.

Other cloud platforms from Citrix

In addition to Citrix Cloud, Citrix offers other clouds that are isolated and separate from Citrix Cloud.

Citrix Cloud Government

Citrix Cloud Government allows US government agencies and other public-sector customers in the US to use Citrix cloud services according to regulatory and compliance requirements. Citrix Cloud Government is a geographical boundary within which Citrix operates, stores, and replicates services and data for delivery of Citrix Cloud Government services. Citrix may use multiple public or private clouds located in one or more states within the US to provide services.

Citrix Cloud Government and offered services are available only in the US region.

For more information, see the Citrix Cloud Government product documentation.

Citrix Cloud Japan

Citrix Cloud Japan allows Japanese customers to use certain Citrix Cloud services in a dedicated Citrix-managed environment. Citrix Cloud Japan and offered services are available only in Japan.

For more information, see the Citrix Cloud Japan product documentation.