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title: "Announcing Vienna Arsenal Zone General Availability"
date: 2017-09-04
author: "Antoine Coetsier"
url: https://www.exoscale.com/blog/announcing-vienna-zone/
---
# Announcing Vienna Arsenal Zone General Availability

> **AT-VIE-1** is available immediately

![cover pic](https://www.exoscale.com/blog/announcing-vienna-zone/cover.png)

It is with great pride that I announce the availability of
**AT-VIE-1**, a new Exoscale zone in Vienna, marking our first
move towards a wider footprint in Europe.

Starting today, **AT-VIE-1** is available to all Exoscale customers
benefitting from all standard Exoscale features such as [Elastic IP Addresses](https://www.exoscale.com/blog/introducing-elastic-ips/) and [Private Networks](https://www.exoscale.com/blog/introducing-private-networks/).

Exoscale zones are fully independent and as stated in
our [terms of service](https://www.exoscale.com/terms/) we guarantee
that data does not move across zones. As such if you already host in a
Swiss zone there is no risk of seeing data get moved within the EU and
conversely. Of course you are free to build infrastructure that spans
across Swiss and Austrian zones.

In Vienna we found a tech-savvy crowd that shares our concerns for
security without compromising on the need for performance and
features.  Reformed military complexes are becoming a bit of an icon
at Exoscale, it was thus destiny that after our reformed army fort of
**CH-DK-2**, **AT-VIE-1** would be hosted in the reformed military
complex in Vienna's Arsenal.

With A1 digital as majority investor, and acting as the infrastructure
layer of A1 digital's market strategy, Exoscale is now positioned to
provide complete solutions to SaaS providers, teams running Machine
Learning and Stream processing projects, as well as all automation
hungry teams across Europe.

Thanks to a strong investment and commitment from A1 digital, a
Frankfurt zone is coming on the heels of our Vienna zone to complete
our initial geographical plan and to have an ideal answer for A1's
digital market footprint.

I wanted to take this opportunity to clear a few things up for our
existing and new customers:

- **Will Exoscale keep its Lausanne office and remain in Switzerland?**
  Akenes SA, trading under Exoscale, is and remains a Swiss company,
  operated from Lausanne, Switzerland.  No changes will occur for
  the foreseeable future.
- **What changes, if any, for your approach to data protection?**
  Our [terms of service](https://www.exoscale.com/terms/) remain
  unchanged and auditable
  on [Github](https://github.com/exoscale/terms), as they have always
  been.  We will conform to Austrian and European law for data stored in
  the Vienna zone, but there will be zero changes for anything
  pertaining to our **CH-GVA-2** and **CH-DK-2**.
- **What does this mean for existing customers?**
  First of all thanks for being with us! As an existing customer, the
  most visible change is the addition of a new zone, that you may or may
  not elect to use. As stated above, beyond our existing effort, we
  intend to grow our product portfolio and geographical footprint at an
  increased pace with the help of A1 digital's investment and commitment
  to Exoscale.
- **What is Exoscale's default currency now?**
  On this front nothing changes, we still support CHF, EUR, and USD as
  base currencies. Our european customers are presented with
  Euro based pricing and billing. There is no variable FOREX rate as we use
  fixed pricing for both CHF and EUR.

If you have any other questions, please free to reach out. Here's to
a bright future for sovereign cloud computing!