HCP Vault Dedicated now available in additional AWS and Azure regions

Source: HashiCorp Blog

New AWS and Azure Regions for HCP Vault Dedicated

AWS

• Stockholm (eu‑north‑1)
• Paris (eu‑west‑3)

Microsoft Azure

• Australia East
• Australia Central

These additions expand the global footprint of HCP Vault Dedicated, giving organizations greater flexibility for disaster recovery, performance replication, and regional data‑residency requirements.

Benefits of Regional Expansion

• Improved performance – Deploy Vault clusters closer to applications to reduce network latency for secrets retrieval, encryption, and identity validation.
• Enhanced resilience – Support cross‑region disaster‑recovery replication, enabling a secondary Vault cluster in a different region for fail‑over.
• Regulatory compliance – Keep data within specific national or regional boundaries while maintaining centralized governance.
• Reduced dependency – Diversify fail‑over planning across more regions, lowering risk associated with a limited set of locations.

Example Deployments

• Europe: Pair Paris with Frankfurt or Stockholm for regional resilience.
• Australia: Deploy primary clusters in Australia East and secondary clusters in Australia Central, keeping infrastructure within national borders.

Architecture Overview

• Primary cluster – Acts as the system of record.
• Secondary clusters – Replicate configuration, policies, and secrets from the primary.
• Application routing – Applications connect to the nearest Vault cluster, minimizing latency.

Getting Started with the New Regions

1. Provision a cluster – In the HCP portal or via the HCP API, select the desired cloud provider and one of the newly available regions.
2. Design your architecture – Examples:
   • Primary Vault in AWS Paris with a DR replica in AWS Stockholm.
   • Primary Vault in Azure Australia East with a regional DR replica in Australia Central.
   • Performance replicas placed closer to workloads across Europe or APAC.
3. Review documentation – See the full list of supported regions in the HCP Vault documentation.

By leveraging these new deployment locations, organizations can align Vault architectures with their global infrastructure footprint, achieving the right balance of performance, resilience, and compliance without the operational overhead of managing Vault clusters themselves.