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# Supported host regions
Select a Cortex XSOAR 8 SaaS host region during activation. Your selected region, such as the United States or United Kingdom, determines where Cortex XSOAR logs and ingested data are stored. Select a region that meets your data residency and regulatory compliance requirements.
Cortex XSOAR provides high availability through data redundancy. Data is stored across two zones within your selected host region. During an outage, Cortex XSOAR fails over to the secondary zone to help prevent service interruption.
The following tables list available Cortex XSOAR SaaS host regions and associated Cortex services:
### Americas
| Country | Description |
| ------------------ | ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ |
| United States (US) | All Cortex XSOAR logs and ingested data remain hosted within the boundaries of the United States. |
| Canada (CA) | All Cortex XSOAR logs and ingested data remain hosted within the boundaries of Canada.
If you have a WildFire Canada cloud subscription, consider the following:
- You cannot send file submissions for bare-metal analysis.
- You are not protected against macOS-borne zero-day threats, but receive protection against other macOS malware in regular WildFire updates.
|
### EMEA (Europe, the Middle East, Africa)
| Country | Description |
| ------------------- | -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- |
| Finland (FI) | All Cortex XSOAR logs and ingested data remain hosted within the boundaries of Finland. |
| France (FA) | All Cortex XSOAR logs and ingested data remain hosted within the boundaries of France. |
| Germany (DE) | All Cortex XSOAR logs and ingested data remain hosted within the boundaries of Germany. |
| Israel (IL) | All Cortex XSOAR logs and ingested data remain hosted within the boundaries of Israel. |
| Italy (IT) | All Cortex XSOAR logs and ingested data remain hosted within the boundaries of Italy. |
| Netherlands (EU) | All Cortex XSOAR logs and ingested data remain hosted within the boundaries of the Netherlands. |
| Poland (PL) | All Cortex XSOAR logs and ingested data remain hosted within the boundaries of Poland. |
| Qatar (QT) | All Cortex XSOAR logs and ingested data remain hosted within the boundaries of Qatar. |
| Saudi Arabia (SA) | All Cortex XSOAR logs and ingested data remain hosted within the boundaries of Saudi Arabia. |
| South Africa (ZA) | All Cortex XSOAR logs and ingested data remain hosted within the boundaries of South Africa. |
| Spain (ES) | All Cortex XSOAR logs and ingested data remain hosted within the boundaries of Spain. |
| Switzerland (CH) | All Cortex XSOAR logs and ingested data remain hosted within the boundaries of Switzerland. |
| United Kingdom (UK) | All Cortex XSOAR logs and ingested data remain hosted within the boundaries of the United Kingdom. |
### JPAC (Asia-Pacific)
| Country | Description |
| -------------- | ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- |
| Australia (AU) | All Cortex XSOAR logs and ingested data remain hosted within the boundaries of Australia. |
| India (IN) | All Cortex XSOAR logs and ingested data remain hosted within the boundaries of India. |
| Indonesia (ID) | All Cortex XSOAR logs and ingested data remain hosted within the boundaries of Indonesia. |
| Japan (JP) | All Cortex XSOAR logs and ingested data remain hosted within the boundaries of Japan. |
| Singapore (SG) | All Cortex XSOAR logs and ingested data remain hosted within the boundaries of Singapore. |
| South Korea | All Cortex XSOAR logs and ingested data remain hosted within the boundaries of South Korea. |
| Taiwan (TW) | All Cortex XSOAR logs and ingested data remain hosted within the boundaries of Taiwan. |
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