About Ireland
Dublin is Ireland's primary interconnection market, and it is where trans-Atlantic subsea cable systems come ashore on the European side. The city also carries a dense hyperscaler cloud presence, so platforms serving both North American and European users tend to treat Ireland as a bridging market rather than a purely local one.
Zenlayer operates one data center in Dublin, providing edge colocation for customer-owned hardware alongside IP transit, in a facility certified to SOC 2 Type II and ISO 27001. The site suits teams that need an Irish rack with evidence-backed controls and upstream capacity in the same building, without standing up and staffing a European region of their own.
Ireland sits inside the EU regulatory perimeter while remaining a short hop from the United Kingdom, which suits teams that need EU-resident capacity kept separate from a British footprint. From Dublin, Zenlayer's backbone reaches the rest of its European markets, including the United Kingdom, the Netherlands, France, and Germany, and most customers pair the Irish site with one of those for compute and delivery.
Compute in Ireland
Compute in Dublin is served through edge colocation rather than a hosted compute product. Customers run their own servers, storage, and network equipment in the facility, and Zenlayer supplies the space, power, cross-connects, and IP transit around it. Bare metal cloud (BMC) and virtual machines (VM) are not provisioned from the Irish site today.
That shape suits teams with hardware they already own, licensing tied to specific machines, and regulated workloads in fintech, media, and enterprise SaaS that need an Irish presence for data residency reasons. Teams that also want Zenlayer-managed bare metal or virtual machines take those from another European market and keep Dublin as the residency end of the deployment.
Enterprise hardware
Intel Xeon Scalable. Up to 384 GB RAM. NVMe and SSD storage tiers.
Premium network
100+ Tbps backbone with dynamic, latency-optimized routing.
Instant provisioning
Deploy via Terraform, REST API, or the point-and-click zenConsole.
Flexible billing
Hourly pay-as-you-go with discounts for longer commitments.
Networking in Ireland
Networking in Dublin is built around IP transit, delivered in the same building as the customer racks and cross-connected straight into the cabinet. Dublin's routing value is largely geographic: trans-Atlantic subsea systems land on the Irish coast, which gives an Irish deployment a westbound path to North America that does not have to cross back into Britain or Continental Europe first.
Cloud WAN, Cloud Connect, and CDN are not available from Ireland, so customers that need hyperscaler on-ramps or edge delivery terminate those in another Zenlayer market and carry traffic into Dublin over transit. Zenlayer's global software-defined backbone still governs how Irish traffic reaches the rest of the network, so the Dublin site is not isolated even though its local product set is deliberately narrow.
IP Transit
Blended carrier routes tuned for the lowest real-world latency.
Cloud Connect
Private, dedicated links into AWS, Azure, GCP, and Oracle.
Cloud WAN
Software-defined backbone spanning 290+ points of presence.
Edge protection
Layer 3 and 4 DDoS mitigation with real-time traffic filtering.
Colocation in Ireland
Colocation is the primary Zenlayer product in Ireland, delivered from a single carrier-neutral data center in Dublin. Customers take rack space with cross-connects into the building's carrier and cloud ecosystem, and the facility holds SOC 2 Type II and ISO 27001 certification, which regulated customers need in order to evidence physical and operational controls to their auditors.
Because the Irish footprint is one site rather than a spread of campuses, Dublin is best treated as a residency and interconnection anchor instead of a bulk-capacity market. The usual shape is a compact, well-connected Irish deployment holding the data that has to stay in the EU, cross-connected to transit, with volume compute and delivery running from a larger Zenlayer market elsewhere in Europe.
Carrier-neutral
Access to 400+ carriers and major regional peering exchanges.
Flexible power
Standard and high-density rack configurations on request.
Secure access
Biometric entry, CCTV, and 24/7 dedicated remote hands.
Rapid turn-up
Cage-to-production cross-connects in days, not weeks.
Cities in Ireland
Data Centers in Ireland
1 totalDublin
Ireland's capital and Europe's densest cluster of hyperscaler regions and global tech HQs.
1 DC
Dublin
Ireland's capital and Europe's densest cluster of hyperscaler regions and global tech HQs.
| Services | ||
|---|---|---|
| EU-Dublin1(Equinix_DB4)DUB1 |  | ColoIP Transit |
FAQs
Common questions about deploying compute, networking, and colocation infrastructure in Ireland.
Where are Zenlayer's data centers located in Ireland?
Zenlayer operates one data center in Dublin, and all Irish inventory sits in that metro. Dublin is Ireland's primary interconnection market and the point where trans-Atlantic subsea systems come ashore, so a single well-connected site covers the national market without splitting capacity across several cities. There is no second Zenlayer location in Ireland at present.
What cloud and network services are available in Dublin?
The Dublin site offers edge colocation and IP transit, and the facility is certified to SOC 2 Type II and ISO 27001. Bare metal cloud (BMC), virtual machines (VM), Cloud WAN, Cloud Connect, and CDN are not provisioned there today, so Dublin works as a colocation and transit location rather than one of Zenlayer's fully-stacked edge sites.
Does a Dublin deployment satisfy EU data residency requirements?
Ireland is an EU member state, so data held in the Dublin facility stays inside the EU regulatory perimeter, and the site's SOC 2 Type II and ISO 27001 certifications give auditors documented evidence of the controls around it. Teams that already run infrastructure in the United Kingdom often add Dublin specifically to keep EU-resident data separate from a British footprint.
How do trans-Atlantic subsea landings shape routing out of Dublin?
Traffic between Ireland and North America can take a direct westbound path over cable systems that come ashore on the Irish coast, rather than being backhauled across the Irish Sea and out from another European landing point. For latency-sensitive delivery between European and North American endpoints that removes a leg of terrestrial transport, and it leaves an Irish deployment a second physical route out of the country.
Which other Zenlayer markets pair well with an Irish deployment?
Zenlayer's nearest European markets include the United Kingdom, the Netherlands, France, and Germany, all reachable from Dublin over the same software-defined backbone. Because compute, cloud on-ramps, and CDN are not offered in Ireland, a Dublin deployment is normally paired with one of those markets: Ireland holds the resident data and the transit, and the partner market carries the serving tier.
Deploy Infrastructure in Ireland
Zenlayer's team can scope an Irish deployment with you, from rack and cross-connect requirements through transit capacity and how Dublin should sit alongside your other European markets.