Region Groups
Region Groups give you control over where your data resides. Each database, including storage, and compute services exist in a separate geographic region. This makes it possible to comply with data locality legislation, such as the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) while benefiting from the built-in Fauna distributed service features.
Region Group nodes are physically located relatively close together, which reduces the round-trip time to acknowledge consistent writes compared to global replication, improving performance for many workloads.
Region Group selection exists at the database level. When a database is in a Region Group, it is fully isolated from other Region Groups and is never replicated in other Region Groups.
A database and all its contents, including child databases, can exist only in a single Region Group.
Region Group locations
Currently, Fauna offers these Region Groups:
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United States
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Europe
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Global
Pricing varies by region. To estimate your monthly costs, use the pricing calculator.
To request a region, product@fauna.com.
Replica distribution
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United States: three replicas in the United States
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Europe: three replicas in Europe
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Global: two replicas in the United States, one replica in Europe
Region Group endpoints
How to choose a Region Group
You can choose a Region Group when you create a database:
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Log in to the Fauna Dashboard and click Create-Database.
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In Region Group, choose the Region Group you want from the menu options.
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After completing the remaining fields to configure your database, click Create.
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