6 months ago
There have been many threads, comments, upvotes, etc. about this before and plenty of anticipation for it from silent parties like myself too but, any progress on hosting on Railway from literally any location in Australia?
Singapore has been mentioned as the go-to for the APAC region but it isn't performant enough for all use-cases, and it doesn't accommodate data sovereignty requirements that many have raised in prior threads.
I - like many others I'm sure - have been wanting to use Railway for a long time but have been waiting silently as it isn't worth my time until there is hosting in Australia (preferably both Sydney AND Melbourne).
I know that adding another location isn't the sexiest changelog but that is the unlock for myself and many others to actually use Railway which would help to fund further/sexier features.
One of the threads mentioned that it would be added as a discussion in Q1 '26 but I couldn't find it referenced anywhere. If it has been mentioned again or added to the roadmap then I apologize and please kill this thread but, I'm pretty sure it's been radio silence.
That's my TED Talk, thanks!
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3 months ago
Adding another strong +1 here — and specifically calling out the need for both Australia and New Zealand regions.
I'm building an AI-native SaaS product and actively pursuing enterprise customers in AU/NZ. Data sovereignty is consistently one of the first questions that comes up in enterprise sales conversations — particularly around the Australian Privacy Act, NZ Privacy Act 2020, and sector-specific compliance requirements (finance, health, government).
Singapore as a proxy for APAC doesn't cut it for these customers. They need data to remain onshore within AU or NZ jurisdiction — it's often a hard blocker, not a nice-to-have.
Railway is genuinely the best DX on the market and I'd love to standardise on it across all my products, but without AU/NZ region support I'm being forced to evaluate alternatives that offer local hosting. This is a direct revenue and enterprise adoption blocker for Railway in this region.
Would love to see this reconsidered — even an AU region (Sydney) as a starting point would unlock a significant segment of enterprise deals for builders like me operating in this market.
2 months ago
Adding a +1 as well. Sydney would reduce the latency we are seeing, as well as open up several projects that will have data sovereignty constraints.
24 days ago
Hello, adding my +1 here as well. This will allow me to place a lot more services with Railway than I can currently rather than continue to look for a "railway like" supplier with point of presence in Australia
3 days ago
Who do we get this moving....Can I make some phone calls, book some meetings, pound the pavement?
3 days ago
We aren't currently seeing a wide enough need for an Australian region, so we wouldn't be able to start on that just yet.
2 days ago
If you can provide us with some numbers you need to hit I am sure we can all shake the tin to get you a few customers but it really is a "build it and they will come thing" But we also know given you roll/deploy your own hardware so it won't happen overnight.
2 days ago
+1 we really need this!!!
a day ago
Australian companies have tight regulations with data storage. It would be really helpful to have this. Otherwise we will have to migrate elsewhere.
a day ago
We definitely need this.
alexwhughes
If you can provide us with some numbers you need to hit I am sure we can all shake the tin to get you a few customers but it really is a "build it and they will come thing" But we also know given you roll/deploy your own hardware so it won't happen overnight.
a day ago
Thank you all for your interest! Unfortunately, I cannot provide concrete numbers, but we would need an order of magnitude more votes than we are currently looking at to put this on the board.