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New Region in Early Access: Virginia (US East)
April 20, 2024

New Region in Early Access: Virginia (US East)

Stephen Barlow
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. 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:
Selecting the Virginia region in the Render Dashboard
Selecting the Virginia region in the Render Dashboard
If you use Infrastructure-as-Code with Render Blueprints, you can specify the Virginia region for a service in your 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.