Tool and environment limitations for the Frankfurt region
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Frankfurt regional limitations
Service
Limitation
watsonx.ai Studio
If you need a Spark runtime, you must use the Spark environment in watsonx.ai Studio for the notebook editor tools.
watsonx.ai Runtime
Custom models and deploy on demand models are not available.
watsonx.governance
Only one instance per region is supported.
Tool and environment limitations for the London region
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London regional limitations
Service
Limitation
watsonx.ai Studio
If you need a Spark runtime, you must use the Spark environment in watsonx.ai Studio for the notebook editor tools.
watsonx.ai Studio
IBM Orchestration Pipelines is not available.
watsonx.ai Runtime
Custom models and deploy on demand models are not available.
watsonx.governance
Evaluation Studio is not available.
watsonx.governance
Tuned model evaluations are not available.
Tool and environment limitations for the Sydney region
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Sydney regional limitations
Service
Limitation
watsonx.ai Studio
RStudio is not available.
watsonx.ai Studio
If you need a Spark runtime, you must use the Spark environment in watsonx.ai Studio for the notebook editor tools.
watsonx.ai Studio
If you use the watsonx.ai Runtime API to run Decision Optimization jobs, you must first create a User API key.
watsonx.governance
No support for integration with Governance console
watsonx.governance
Only one instance per region is supported.
Tool and environment limitations for the Tokyo region
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Tokyo regional limitations
Service
Limitation
watsonx.ai Studio
If you need a Spark runtime, you must use the Spark environment in watsonx.ai Studio for the notebook editor tools.
watsonx.ai Studio
Multibyte characters are not supported in user-input fields in Data Refinery. Some fields allow multibyte characters but do not display them correctly.
watsonx.ai Studio
IBM Orchestration Pipelines is not available.
watsonx.ai Runtime
Custom models and deploy on demand models are not available.
watsonx.governance
Evaluation Studio is not available.
watsonx.governance
Tuned model evaluations are not available.
Tool and environment limitations for the Toronto region
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Toronto regional limitations
Service
Limitation
watsonx.ai Studio
RStudio is not available.
watsonx.ai Runtime
Tuning Studio is not available.
watsonx.governance
Evaluation Studio is not available.
watsonx.governance
Tuned model evaluations are not available.
Regional availability of provided foundation models
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The following table shows the IBM Cloud data centers where you can inference the foundation models that are provided by IBM. A checkmark indicates that the model is hosted in the region.
IBM Cloud data center support for inferencing foundation models provided by IBM
Model name
Dallas
Frankfurt
London
Sydney
Tokyo
Toronto
allam-1-13b-instruct
✓
codellama-34b-instruct-hf
✓
✓
✓
✓
elyza-japanese-llama-2-7b-instruct
✓
flan-t5-xl-3b
✓
✓
✓
✓
flan-t5-xxl-11b
✓
✓
✓
✓
flan-ul2-20b
✓
✓
✓
✓
granite-13b-instruct-v2
✓
✓
✓
✓
✓
granite-8b-japanese
✓
granite-20b-multilingual
✓
✓
✓
✓
✓
granite-3-2b-instruct
✓
✓
✓
✓
✓
granite-3-8b-instruct
✓
✓
✓
✓
✓
✓
granite-guardian-3-2b
✓
✓
granite-guardian-3-8b
✓
✓
granite-3b-code-instruct
✓
granite-8b-code-instruct
✓
✓
granite-20b-code-instruct
✓
✓
granite-34b-code-instruct
✓
jais-13b-chat
✓
llama-3-3-70b-instruct
✓
✓
✓
✓
✓
llama-3-2-1b-instruct
✓
llama-3-2-3b-instruct
✓
llama-3-2-11b-vision-instruct
✓
✓
✓
✓
✓
llama-3-2-90b-vision-instruct
✓
✓
llama-guard-3-11b-vision
✓
✓
llama-3-1-8b-instruct
✓
✓
✓
✓
llama-3-1-70b-instruct
✓
✓
✓
✓
✓
llama-3-405b-instruct
✓
llama-3-70b-instruct
✓
✓
llama-2-13b-chat
✓
✓
✓
✓
mistral-large
✓
✓
✓
✓
✓
mistral-small-24b-instruct-2501
✓
mixtral-8x7b-instruct-v01
✓
✓
✓
✓
pixtral-12b
✓
✓
Regional availability of deploy on demand foundation models
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The following table shows the IBM Cloud data centers where you can deploy foundation models on-demand for the dedicated use of your organization. A checkmark indicates that the model is hosted in the region.
IBM Cloud data center support for deploy on demand foundation models provided by IBM
Model name
Dallas
Sydney
Toronto
granite-3-8b-base
✓
✓
✓
granite-7b-lab
✓
✓
✓
granite-13b-chat-v2
✓
✓
✓
granite-13b-instruct-v2
✓
✓
✓
granite-8b-code-instruct
✓
✓
✓
granite-20b-code-instruct
✓
✓
✓
granite-34b-code-instruct
✓
✓
✓
granite-20b-code-base-schema-linking
✓
✓
✓
granite-20b-code-base-sql-gen
✓
✓
✓
deepseek-r1-distill-llama-8b
✓
✓
✓
deepseek-r1-distill-llama-70b
✓
✓
✓
flan-t5-xl-3b
✓
✓
✓
flan-t5-xxl-11b
✓
✓
✓
flan-ul2-20b
✓
✓
✓
llama-2-13b-chat
✓
✓
✓
llama-2-70b-chat
✓
✓
✓
llama-3-8b-instruct
✓
✓
✓
llama-3-70b-instruct
✓
✓
✓
llama-3-1-8b
✓
✓
✓
llama-3-1-8b-instruct
✓
✓
✓
llama-3-1-70b-instruct
✓
✓
✓
llama-3-3-70b-instruct
✓
✓
✓
llama-3-3-70b-instruct-hf
✓
✓
✓
mistral-large-instruct-2407
✓
✓
✓
mistral-large-instruct-2411
✓
✓
✓
mistral-nemo-instruct-2407
✓
✓
✓
mixtral-8x7b-base
✓
✓
✓
mixtral-8x7b-instruct-v01
✓
✓
✓
mt0-xxl-13b
✓
✓
✓
Regional availability of foundation model tuning
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The following table shows the IBM Cloud data centers where tuning the foundation model is supported. A checkmark indicates that you can use the Tuning Studio to tune the foundation model in the region.
IBM Cloud data center support for foundation model tuning
Model name
Dallas
Frankfurt
London
Sydney
Tokyo
Toronto
flan-t5-xl-3b
✓
✓
✓
✓
granite-13b-instruct-v2
✓
✓
✓
✓
✓
Regional availability of encoder-only models
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The following table shows the IBM Cloud data centers where embedding models and reranker models are available. A checkmark indicates that you can use the model in the region.
IBM Cloud data center support for encoder-only models