Materialize Cloud Regions

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Overview

• Latency: Minimize network latency to data sources and consumers
• Data residency: Meet compliance requirements for data location
• Availability: Ensure high availability within your geographic area
• Cost: Reduce data transfer costs by collocating with data sources

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Available Regions

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AWS Regions

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GCP Regions

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Azure Regions

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Region Selection Guidelines

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Collocate with Data Sources

-- Example: If your Kafka cluster is in us-east-1,
-- create your Materialize environment in us-east-1

• Lower latency: Minimal network delay when ingesting data
• Reduced costs: No cross-region data transfer charges
• Higher throughput: Better network performance

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Consider Data Consumers

1. Prioritize sources: If ingesting high-volume streaming data, prioritize source proximity
2. Prioritize consumers: If query latency is critical, prioritize consumer proximity
3. Use multi-region: For global applications, consider deploying multiple Materialize environments

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Compliance and Data Residency

• GDPR (Europe): Use eu-west-1 or eu-central-1 for EU data
• Data Sovereignty: Select regions based on your country’s requirements
• Industry Regulations: Healthcare, financial, and government sectors may have specific requirements

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Multi-Region Deployments

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Use Cases

1. Geographic distribution: Serve users from nearby regions
2. Disaster recovery: Maintain standby environments in different regions
3. Data sovereignty: Keep region-specific data in compliant regions
4. Testing: Separate production and development environments by region

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Architecture Example

┌─────────────────┐
│   Application   │
│   (Global)      │
└────────┬────────┘
         │
    ┌────┴────┐
    │         │
┌───▼──┐  ┌──▼───┐
│ US   │  │ EU   │
│ Env  │  │ Env  │
└──┬───┘  └───┬──┘
   │          │
┌──▼──┐   ┌──▼──┐
│Kafka│   │Kafka│
│ US  │   │ EU  │
└─────┘   └─────┘

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Cross-Region Considerations

• Data replication: You must manage replication between environments
• Consistency: Eventual consistency between regions
• Cost: Multiple environments incur separate compute charges
• Management: Each environment is managed independently

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Network Connectivity

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Public Internet Access

• TLS encryption (required)
• IP allowlisting (optional)
• VPN connections (optional)

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Private Connectivity

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AWS PrivateLink

-- Create a connection using AWS PrivateLink
CREATE CONNECTION privatelink_connection TO AWS PRIVATELINK (
  SERVICE NAME 'com.amazonaws.vpce.us-east-1.vpce-svc-xxxxx',
  AVAILABILITY ZONES ('use1-az1', 'use1-az2')
);

• Private network path
• Reduced latency
• Enhanced security
• No public IP exposure

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GCP Private Service Connect

CREATE CONNECTION psc_connection TO GCP PRIVATE SERVICE CONNECT (
  SERVICE ATTACHMENT 'projects/PROJECT/regions/REGION/serviceAttachments/ATTACHMENT'
);

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Azure Private Link

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Latency Considerations

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Typical Latencies

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Optimizing for Latency

1. Choose nearby regions: Deploy in the region closest to your highest-priority traffic
2. Use CDNs: For HTTP traffic, use CloudFlare or similar CDNs
3. Connection pooling: Maintain persistent connections to reduce connection overhead
4. Batch operations: Group multiple queries when possible

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Region Migration

1. Create a new environment in the target region
2. Recreate sources, materialized views, and other objects
3. Reconfigure applications to use the new endpoint
4. Verify functionality
5. Delete the old environment

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Migration Checklist

• Export DDL statements from current environment
• Create new environment in target region
• Update network configurations (allowlists, PrivateLink)
• Recreate connections to data sources
• Recreate sources and materialized views
• Update application connection strings
• Test functionality in new environment
• Cutover traffic to new environment
• Monitor for issues
• Delete old environment

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Availability Zones

• Automatic failover: If an AZ fails, traffic routes to healthy AZs
• Data replication: Data is replicated across AZs
• No configuration: AZ distribution is automatic

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Cluster Replication

CREATE CLUSTER my_cluster (
  SIZE = '200cc',
  REPLICATION FACTOR = 2  -- Creates 2 replicas across AZs
);

• Zero downtime during AZ failures
• Load balancing across replicas
• Higher query throughput

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Cost Considerations

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Data Transfer Costs

• Intra-region: Free for data transfer within the same region
• Cross-region: Standard cloud provider rates apply
• Internet egress: Charges apply for data sent to the internet

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Region Pricing

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Support and SLAs

• 99.9% uptime: Guaranteed availability
• 24/7 support: Available for all production environments
• Regional failover: Automatic within multi-AZ deployments

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Next Steps