Cloud infrastructure provider Vultr announced on January 25 that its new data center in Osaka, Japan is officially open. The Osaka launch brings Vultr’s global footprint to 30 data center regions, serving as its seventh location in Asia and its second data center in Japan alongside Tokyo.

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Services Available in Osaka

According to Vultr’s official blog post, the Osaka region (region code: itm) supports Vultr’s core cloud infrastructure lineup right from day one:

  • Cloud Compute: Standard shared-CPU plans as well as High Frequency Intel and AMD EPYC instances;
  • Optimized Cloud Compute: Dedicated vCPU instances built for production workloads;
  • Vultr Kubernetes Engine (VKE): One-click managed container clusters;
  • Block Storage & Snapshots: High-speed NVMe block storage volumes and automated backups.

In its announcement, Vultr noted that East Asia remains one of the highest-demand cloud markets worldwide. As the economic and network hub of Japan’s Kansai region, Osaka complements the existing Tokyo facility and helps Asia-Pacific users deploy low-latency workloads closer to end users.

Why the Osaka Region Matters

For users across East Asia and the wider Asia-Pacific region, Japanese data centers have long been a top choice thanks to short physical distances and low latency. Previously, however, every workload in Japan was concentrated in a single Tokyo facility—meaning peak-hour international bandwidth could get crowded, and users lacked an in-country secondary site during maintenance or route fluctuations.

The Osaka data center solves both issues practically:

  1. Offloading Tokyo congestion: When specific subnets in Tokyo are busy or entry-level plans are temporarily out of stock, users can deploy in Osaka instead while still getting fast domestic Japanese bandwidth and low regional latency;
  2. In-country disaster recovery: E-commerce stores, corporate sites, and APIs serving Japanese customers can run their primary node in Tokyo and keep a standby server or database replica in Osaka for low-cost dual-region redundancy.

Sign Up and Test the Osaka Region

There are no special restrictions on the Osaka region—new-user promotional trial credits apply directly to Osaka cloud servers, with starter plans beginning at $5/mo or $6/mo (High Frequency / Premium) after verifying a credit card or PayPal account.

Users looking to spin up a server in Japan can register through the link below, head to the Deploy page, select Asia -> Osaka, and have an Osaka instance running in minutes to test speeds and routing.

Sign up for Vultr and claim your new-user credit to test Osaka →

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