The Virginia region has graduated to general availability as of August 5, 2024. See the changelog.
Today in early access, Virginia (US East) joins Render's growing list of regions. We've heard Virginia's a pretty popular place for cloud infrastructure (mild understatement), so we want to help minimize latency between your Render services and the users, systems, and vendors you have in the area.
Plus, if you've been wanting to make the move to Render from another hosting provider but you need to keep your apps in the Virginia region, now's your chance!
Deploying to the Virginia region is as straightforward as selecting it from the dropdown when you're creating a new service in the Render Dashboard:
render.yaml file like so:
Note that you can't move an existing service to a new region at this time. But you can create a new service in Virginia and migrate over your data and configuration.
Why early access?
The Virginia region is feature-complete with our other regions (Oregon, Ohio, Frankfurt, and Singapore). It provides service previews, static outbound IPs, private networking—the works. This early access period gives us an opportunity to address any one-off issues that might arise with spinning up a new region (a whole lot goes into it behind the scenes). We'll be sure to announce down the road when early access wraps up. In the meantime, we appreciate you putting the Virginia region through its paces!We can't wait to see what you bring over to the east coast. If you have suggestions for which region we should add next, please let us know by submitting or voting on a feature request.