About Israel
Tel Aviv concentrates Israel's technology economy and effectively all of the country's carrier and cloud capacity, sitting where Mediterranean subsea systems come ashore between Europe and the Gulf. Domestic operators interconnect across the metro, which gives international networks one practical entry point into the market and leaves little reason to look at a second Israeli city.
Zenlayer operates 1 data center in Tel Aviv, providing bare metal cloud (BMC), edge colocation, and IP transit from a facility certified to SOC 2 Type II and ISO 27001. The stack is built for teams that need compute and transit inside Israel itself, whether for local user latency, data residency commitments, or licensing terms tied to named hardware.
Israel runs its own privacy and telecommunications regime and sits outside the Gulf blocs, so in-country hosting is often a requirement rather than a preference for public sector, healthcare, and financial workloads. Zenlayer's backbone links Tel Aviv to the United Arab Emirates, Saudi Arabia, Qatar, and Egypt, and teams commonly add one of those markets as coverage widens.
Compute in Israel
Zenlayer publishes two compute options in Israel: bare metal cloud (BMC), single-tenant servers provisioned and billed by Zenlayer, and edge colocation, where the customer racks its own hardware in the same Tel Aviv building. Dedicated hardware suits the market well, because a workload that has to prove where it runs needs a machine it can point at.
Common deployments include payment and trading systems that cannot absorb a round trip to Europe, SaaS control planes for Israeli enterprise customers, and game or streaming backends covering the domestic audience. Small footprints are typically sized as a single bare metal node, with colocation added when the customer already owns the equipment it wants to run.
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 Israel
IP transit is the network product in Tel Aviv, delivered as BGP-capable capacity from the metro where Israeli interconnection concentrates. Local traffic reaches domestic eyeball networks over short in-country paths and Tel Aviv peering, while international traffic takes the Mediterranean subsea route northwest to Southern Europe.
Cloud WAN, Cloud Connect, CDN, Global Internet Access, and public cloud are not published for the Israeli node, so private hyperscaler on-ramps and managed delivery are anchored from another Zenlayer market over the global software-defined backbone. That makes Israel a compute and transit position inside a wider regional design rather than a standalone one.
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 Israel
Zenlayer's Israeli colocation is a single site in Tel Aviv, certified to SOC 2 Type II and ISO 27001, with rack space for customers running their own equipment beside Zenlayer bare metal and IP transit. Cross-connects inside the facility are how customers stitch owned hardware to Zenlayer capacity without hauling traffic across the metro.
Colocation here is usually chosen for reasons other than scale. Hardware licensed to a serial number, an appliance a vendor supports only on physical machines, or a control that requires the box be physically identifiable all point to a rack rather than a provisioned server. With one in-country site, workloads that need site-level redundancy place the second copy in a nearby Zenlayer market and treat Tel Aviv as the Israeli half of a two-country design.
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 Israel
Data Centers in Israel
1 totalTel Aviv
Home of Israel's startup density and the Eastern Mediterranean's most active technology economy.
1 DC
Tel Aviv
Home of Israel's startup density and the Eastern Mediterranean's most active technology economy.
| Services | ||
|---|---|---|
| ME-Tel Aviv1TLV1 | Bezeq International | ColoBMCIP Transit |
FAQs
Common questions about deploying compute, networking, and colocation infrastructure in Israel.
Where is Zenlayer data center capacity located in Israel?
<p>Zenlayer operates 1 data center in Tel Aviv, and that single site is the whole Israeli footprint. Tel Aviv is where domestic carrier interconnection, subsea backhaul, and the country's cloud regions converge, so a second Israeli metro would add distance without adding reach. The site is certified to SOC 2 Type II and ISO 27001.</p>
What cloud and network services are available in Tel Aviv?
<p>Tel Aviv carries bare metal cloud (BMC), edge colocation, and IP transit, all delivered from the same SOC 2 Type II and ISO 27001 certified site. Cloud WAN, Cloud Connect, CDN, Global Internet Access, and public cloud are not published for Israel, so a deployment that needs any of those takes them from another Zenlayer market and terminates its Israeli compute in Tel Aviv.</p>
Why deploy in Tel Aviv rather than another Middle East city?
<p>Inside Israel the question does not really arise, because Tel Aviv holds the carrier and cloud presence and the rest of the country does not. Measured against Gulf cities, the argument is jurisdiction: Israeli data protection and telecommunications rules apply here and nowhere else in the region, and traffic to Israeli users stays in the country instead of crossing a border and coming back.</p>
How does subsea geography shape connectivity out of Tel Aviv?
<p>Israel's international capacity leaves on Mediterranean subsea systems running northwest to Southern Europe, so European exchanges sit on the near side of the international map for Tel Aviv. Gulf traffic, by contrast, is often routed through Europe rather than directly. Regional designs account for that by pinning the Israeli leg to European backhaul and treating Gulf coverage as a separate node.</p>
Which other Middle East markets does Zenlayer serve near Israel?
<p>The nearby Zenlayer markets are the United Arab Emirates, Saudi Arabia, Qatar, Egypt, and Kuwait, all reachable from Tel Aviv over the same backbone. In practice Israel is paired rather than used alone: Tel Aviv holds the Israeli half of a deployment, while a Gulf or North African site carries the services and the regional reach the Israeli node does not. Worth deciding that pairing at design time rather than after the first site is live.</p>
Deploy Infrastructure in Israel
Talk with Zenlayer to design a Tel Aviv deployment built on bare metal, edge colocation, and IP transit inside a SOC 2 Type II and ISO 27001 certified facility.