# Zilliz Cloud Now Available in AWS Asia Pacific (Seoul)

Source: https://zilliz.com/blog/zilliz-cloud-now-available-in-aws-asia-pacific-seoul
Author: Fendy Feng
Published: 2026-04-28T04:00:00.000Z

**We are excited to announce that Zilliz Cloud is now available in AWS ap-northeast-2 (Seoul)**. If you're running AI workloads on AWS in Korea — or serving Korean end users from abroad — you no longer need to route through Tokyo or Virginia. Production vector search now runs where your infrastructure already lives.

South Korea is one of the fastest-moving AI markets in Asia, with major internet platforms, gaming studios, and fintech companies shipping AI-native products at scale. AWS ap-northeast-2 is the default region for most of them, and Zilliz Cloud now sits right next to it.

With this launch, teams building in Korea get:

-   **Lower-latency vector search for Korean users.** Teams previously routing to ap-northeast-1 (Tokyo) or US regions can now serve retrieval-augmented generation (RAG), agentic search, recommendation, and semantic search workloads from Seoul — cutting round-trip latency significantly for Korean end users.
-   **Data residency within South Korea.** For organizations subject to Korea's Personal Information Protection Act (PIPA) or internal data governance policies, keeping vector data in-country is now straightforward. Deploy in ap-northeast-2 and your data stays in Seoul.
-   **One-step migration from wherever you are today.** Moving from Pinecone, Qdrant, Weaviate, Elasticsearch, PostgreSQL, OpenSearch, or self-hosted Milvus? Our [migration service](https://zilliz.com/zilliz-migration-service) handles the heavy lifting, so switching to a Seoul-hosted deployment doesn't mean rebuilding your pipeline.

## Strengthening Our APAC Footprint

Seoul joins Tokyo, Singapore, and Sydney in our Asia-Pacific lineup on AWS — giving APAC teams four regional options on a single cloud provider. Combined with GCP and Azure coverage in the region, Zilliz Cloud now offers the broadest APAC presence of any managed vector database on the market.

A snapshot of our APAC regions:

| AWS | Google Cloud | Microsoft Azure |
| --- | --- | --- |
| ap-northeast-1 (Tokyo) | asia-southeast1 (Singapore) | Central India (Pune) |
| ap-northeast-2 (Seoul) — **New** |   |   |
| ap-southeast-1 (Singapore) |   |   |
| ap-southeast-2 (Sydney) |   |   |

With Seoul live, Zilliz Cloud is now available in **31 regions** across AWS, Google Cloud, Microsoft Azure, Alibaba Cloud, and Tencent Cloud. See the full list in our [Cloud Providers & Regions](https://docs.zilliz.com/docs/cloud-providers-and-regions) documentation.


## Get Started with Zilliz Cloud in Seoul

Spinning up a cluster in the new Seoul region takes just a few steps:

1.  [Sign in to Zilliz Cloud](https://cloud.zilliz.com/) — or [create a free account](https://cloud.zilliz.com/signup) if you're new. You can get $100 in credits upon registration with a business email.
2.  Create a cluster, select **AWS** as your cloud provider, and choose **ap-northeast-2 (Seoul)** as your region.
3.  Configure and deploy — your cluster will be ready in minutes.

If you're migrating from another vector database or moving from a different region, our [migration guides](https://docs.zilliz.com/docs/migrations) and support team are here to help.

## What's Next

Our regional expansion doesn't stop here. We're continuously evaluating new regions and cloud providers to meet you where your business operates.

Have a region you'd like to see next? [Let us know](https://zilliz.com/cloud-region-request) — your input directly shapes our roadmap.