--- title: "Announcing Vienna-2 Zone General Availability" description: "Further expanding our presence in Europe, we are happy to announce we are bringing our Cloud insfrastructure to a second zone in Vienna, Austria." date: 2023-06-14 author: "Sabrina Spilka" url: https://www.exoscale.com/blog/announcing-vienna-2-zone/ --- # Announcing Vienna-2 Zone General Availability > **AT-VIE-2** is now generally available. Starting today, AT-VIE-2 is available to all customers. It is the first time, we are offering a second zone within one city. With Vienna being at the heart of Europe, it is the perfect location to open the new zone.
![AT-VIE-2 - one city, two zones](https://www.exoscale.com/blog/announcing-vienna-2-zone/cover.png)
The new zone allow companies to build multi-zone applications while staying within one country, well even one city. With being in line to all major [certifications](https://www.exoscale.com/compliance/), the new zone meets all requirements for a GDPR-compliant use.
AT-VIE-2 provides all the main Exoscale services out of the box: a [Compute](https://www.exoscale.com/compute/), [S3-compliant Object Storage](https://www.exoscale.com/object-storage/), [Managed Kubernetes](https://www.exoscale.com/sks/), [DBaaS](https://www.exoscale.com/dbaas/) and all additional services such as Private Networks, [Private Connect](https://www.exoscale.com/virtual-private-cloud/), Elastic IP, and more.
Compute capabilities of the new zone are built using latest generation Intel Xeon CPUs codenamed `Sapphire Rapids` and brings new acceleration routines out of the box. Coupled with a low network latency to `AT-VIE-1` our initial [Austrian zone](https://www.exoscale.com/datacenters/austria/), this new location is the perfect candidate for primary workloads when designing primary/secondary architectures or highly available applications.
Vienna now offers Exoscale's seventh European zone marking our commitment to further expand our complete infrastructure offerings to all automation hungry teams across Europe.