European cloud provider OVHcloud has launched a new cloud region in Paris, France.

The company said its 3-AZ Paris region spans three data centers, located approximately 30km apart, to provide organizations with resilience and low latency.

In this new region, the company said data can be replicated for near-instant failover or distributed for scale. OVH previously came under criticism for putting backups in the same data center in the wake of a fire at its Strasbourg site.

The company said that deployment is available immediately and will typically involve the roll-out of a minimum of three bare metal servers in its three Paris-based data centers.

Bare metal servers are the first service to become available in the 3-AZ Paris region. However, OVH said its other products and solutions, such as compute, AI, quantum, and storage, will soon be available.

OVH chief product and technology officer, Yaniv Fdida, said: “This launch is an important step in our public cloud strategy. We are really proud of this new offer that demonstrates our commitment to provide a robust infrastructure enabling our customers to build highly available and resilient services and applications.”

He added that the company plans on adding more availability zone regions to its portfolio.

Currently, OVHcloud says it has 44 data centers spanning nine countries, with plans to add seven more data centers soon. These are a mix of self-built and leased locations in France, the US, Canada, Germany, Australia, Poland, Singapore, India and the UK.

Last month OVHcloud added an eighth data center to its Canada portfolio, occupying space in the Ascent TOR1 data center in Toronto. Last month, the company also launched a quantum computer from a data center in Croix, France, and powered up its data center in Mumbai, India.

Last month also marked the third anniversary of the OVHcloud fire in its SGB2 data center in Strasbourg.