Our Zones
Zone1 live. Zone2 next.

MarQi Cloud is designed around zones—independent data centers, each with its own storage cluster, compute hosts, and redundant networking. This design ensures fault isolation, low-latency performance, and scalability without compromise.

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Zones & Growth

Each MarQi Cloud Zone is an independent data center with its own storage cluster and redundant network fabric. Inter-zone traffic flows only over tier-1 providers and is always encrypted, so your workloads stay fast, local, and secure.

Zone1 — Alpharetta, Georgia (LIVE)

  • Located in the heart of the Southeast tech corridor.

  • Redundant multi-NIC hosts, tier-1 network providers, and enterprise-grade storage cluster.

  • Ample rack space and colocation options for customer hardware.

  • Optimized for both virtualized workloads and hybrid deployments.

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Zone 1

Zone2 — Under Construction (COMING SOON)

  • Purpose-built from the ground up for GPU-heavy AI/ML workloads.

  • Incorporates both traditional air cooling and next-generation liquid cooling to handle dense GPU clusters.

  • Will support large-scale colocation, hybrid networking, and distributed storage for high-performance compute.

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Zone 2

Our Growth Roadmap

  • Purpose-built from the ground up for GPU-heavy AI/ML workloads.

  • Incorporates both traditional air cooling and next-generation liquid cooling to handle dense GPU clusters.

  • Will support large-scale colocation, hybrid networking, and distributed storage for high-performance compute.

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MarQi Cloud roadmap illustration.

Why Zones Matter?

01
Performance isolation

Each zone runs its own compute + storage clusters, preventing cross-zone performance impact.

02
Scalability

Add zones without changing your deployment model—scale horizontally.

03
Resilience

A failure in one zone doesn’t affect workloads in another.

04
Flexibility

Choose single-zone deployments for low latency or multi-zone builds for redundancy.

Diagram of the MarQi Cloud Zone1 data center in Alpharetta, Georgia and the metro Atlanta service area including Roswell, Johns Creek, Duluth and Marietta.
Zone1 and the metro Atlanta area it serves.

A zone is a data center, not a label

Each MarQi Cloud zone is a physically separate facility running its own storage cluster and its own compute capacity. That is a deliberate design choice: it means data locality is real rather than nominal, and it means a cross-zone copy gives you genuine geographic separation rather than two copies in one building.

Zone 1 — Alpharetta, Georgia

Our primary zone is in Alpharetta, GA, inside the Atlanta metro, with sub-5ms latency across the metro area. For customers in Georgia and the wider Southeast that proximity is the practical argument: training data, database replicas and backup targets do not have to cross the country to reach compute. It is also where hardware racked under colocation and dedicated GPU capacity live.

How zones talk to each other

Inter-zone traffic rides tier-1 backbones rather than the public internet and is encrypted in transit — see network fabric. Because we do not charge egress, moving data between zones is not a metered event, which changes what is reasonable to do: cross-zone snapshot copies and second-site backup targets become architectural decisions rather than budget decisions. See snapshots and backups and pricing.

Choosing a zone

Put compute in the zone closest to whoever consumes it, and put your second copy somewhere else. Where regulation or a specific latency budget constrains the choice, our engineers will design around it — including dedicated connectivity between your sites and a zone, described under private circuits and peering.

The platform in each zone is the same: KVM compute, per-zone block storage with triple replication, and private VPC networking. Getting a first workload into a zone is walked through under getting started, or talk to an engineer.

Frequently asked questions

What exactly is a MarQi Cloud zone?

A zone is a physically independent data center — its own storage cluster, its own compute hosts and its own redundant network fabric — not a logical label inside one building. That is what makes fault isolation between zones real rather than nominal.

Where is Zone1 and is it live?

Zone1 is live in Alpharetta, Georgia, at 190 Bluegrass Valley Pkwy, operated in partnership with Digital Ignition. It offers redundant multi-NIC hosts, tier-1 network providers, an enterprise storage cluster, and rack space for customer hardware. Zone2 is under construction.

Which zone should I choose?

Choose the zone closest to the users or systems your workload talks to most, because data locality is what determines latency. If you are placing your own hardware with us, choose the zone you want that hardware to sit in — colocated equipment and virtual machines in the same zone share the same fabric.

How do zones communicate with each other?

Inter-zone traffic uses tier-1 providers only and is always encrypted, so it stays off the public internet. Volume snapshots can be copied between zones, which is how cross-zone recovery is handled.

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