+1 Very much needed in Bangalore or Mumbai region

super needed ++

@angelo, this is a chicken and egg problem. I'm a founder and I won't be on Railway if Indian region isn't there and hence you won't traction on such threads. Indian regulations demand servers be in India.

Hello,

Upvoting feedback threads helps show demand even if you're not currently using the platform, so that over time, with sufficient interest, we could consider adding an Indian region.

However, with the current level of demand shown, this won't be feasible for the foreseeable future.

Best regards,

Brody

Roughly how much demand is required for it to be considered?

it would be nice have in India as well. I heard the DC cost is cheaper in India, than in singapore

For Indian customers, Singapore is still far away and the latency penalty is felt for northern India users.

Yes. Frequent issues of slow connection for my team based in India.

I'm sorry, but do you really think someone would create an account to just upvote? This page barely even shows up on Google.

Besides what % of your users engage here at all?

This is a terrible way to gauge interest - should probably have an interest form on your resources page and near the dropdown for selecting the region. Much better way to understand what regions people actually need/want.

I work on contract, developing MVPs and internal tools for various companies - when working on an India-centric project, there are data localisation laws. Can't use Railway, even if the most sensible option for the project otherwise. What do I do - ignore and move on (I don't go around looking for a way to tell you that I needed something you don't offer).

Didn't even know this thread existed and I came here by accident looking for something else.

Folks, India is a big market. Tons of companies who required cloud infra. Makes sense to be here. Singapore won't cut it.

I took the decision of moving from railway to digital ocean as the data center is close by india.

Only reason was the latency to singapore datacenter for my indian customers.

Otherwise i love railway.

i did a test with hosting application in railway and render - both in singapore region with supabase database in mumbai region, i did a load test to understand the request and response time, devoid of the api calls and realised that render is better performance than railway.

For some reason, req per second for railway was double the time of render.com. Same App.

That being said, i really like railway's experience and freedom to deploy the entire application. I tried one click deployment of supabase and really liked it as well.

But a higher "req per second" is better. Indicating Railway performed better.

apologies for the confusion, i meant to say render had higher requests per second compared to railway. Thanks for the request of clarification

+1

received a request from our India customer to have better latency. App is max optimized, only obvious place to save time is to save the trip to Singapore server. Would have to move out this app to AWS. This increases cost for us and more work too, but this is a big customer for us.
Plus there are 10 deployments that are still running in AWS Mumbai because Indian data laws require data server to be the physically present in India.
Indian government has also announced a tax break for data centers in India:
https://etedge-insights.com/in-focus/budget-2026/union-budget-2026-signals-a-data-centre-led-growth-story-for-india-inc/amp/

We urgently require an Indian region for deployment. Initially, we chose Singapore as the latency difference was negligible at that stage. However, as our application has scaled significantly, the increased delays are now severely impacting user retention.

At this point, migrating to another PaaS or VPS provider is not a feasible option for us. Introducing an Indian region would greatly improve performance for our growing user base and would be highly beneficial.

If there was ever a time to consider adding an Indian region, it is now.

@brody, any change is Railway's plans with India region?

My previous message from 6 months ago holds true.

@brody

Thanks for the response.

I just want to clarify, is the decision to add an Indian region primarily based on the number of upvotes on this thread?

If so, that may not fully reflect actual demand. Many teams (especially Indian startups and agencies) don’t actively monitor or engage in feedback threads, but they do make infrastructure decisions based on latency and data localisation requirements.

For example:
• Indian data localisation laws require physical hosting within India for certain use cases.
• Latency from Singapore is becoming a real issue as applications scale.
• Several users in this thread have already migrated to providers like AWS Mumbai or DigitalOcean Bangalore purely due to region availability.

In our case, moving away from Railway would be a business decision driven only by region constraints, not product quality.

Would Railway consider a more structured way to gauge demand (interest form, region request counter in dashboard, waitlist, etc.)? I suspect the real demand may be significantly higher than this thread suggests.

India is one of the fastest-growing startup ecosystems globally, and having a region here could unlock substantial long-term growth for Railway.

Happy to provide usage projections or connect you with other teams who would benefit.