Manage preferred region

Each community includes settings to manage the preferred region, which controls the geographical regions where operational data shared within a community is processed. By default, operational data is primarily processed in the West-US region for most requests, but data can be processed in other regions as well. Using the preferred region settings, you can override the default region to explicitly choose where operational data is processed.

Why would I want to manage my preferred region?

For more information, see Cross-region data sharing.

Prerequisites

• To manage the Community Preferred Region setting, you must be assigned a user role with community administration permissions on the administrative tenant.

• To manage the My Preferred Region setting, you must be assigned a user role with community administration permissions. Being a user of the administrative tenant is not required.

Manage preferred region settings

Edit the Community preferred region or My preferred region from a community's details.

1. In the left pane, select Data Management > Communities.

2. Select the community you want to edit and choose Community Details.

3. Select More Options > Manage Preferred Region.

4. Edit the preferred region settings and select Update.

   • Community Preferred Region

     This setting is used to optimize access to community shared data. It ensures that queries are sent to the appropriate region if a tenant in the community opts-out of cross-region data sharing, which prohibits processing of data outside of the primary region where it resides. If no value is set, then Community Preferred Region setting defaults to the West-US region. Select the region where you expect most of the data in this community to reside.

   • My Preferred Region

     This setting overrides the Community Preferred Region for your tenant and allows you to control which region your tenant's queries to this community are sent to.