About Spain
Madrid anchors Spain's infrastructure market as the point where Iberian carrier backbones, the metro's peering fabrics, and the trans-Atlantic subsea systems landing on the Spanish coast converge. That convergence defines the city's role: it is the handover between European terrestrial networks and the routes running west to the Americas and the Spanish-language internet.
Zenlayer operates 5 data centers in Madrid, offering bare metal cloud (BMC), colocation, IP transit, Cloud WAN, Cloud Connect, CDN, and public cloud, with availability varying by facility rather than uniform across the metro. Together they give teams a single Iberian launchpad for compute, content delivery, and private connectivity into the rest of Europe.
Spain sits inside the EU regulatory perimeter, so workloads placed in Madrid hold GDPR-aligned data residency while staying reachable from the rest of Zenlayer's European footprint, including Portugal, France, Italy, and Germany, over the software-defined backbone. Teams commonly start in Madrid for Iberian audiences, then pair it with a second European market as demand moves north.
Compute in Spain
Madrid carries Zenlayer's compute options: bare metal cloud (BMC) servers at two of the five sites, public cloud, and colocation space for customer-owned hardware. Bare metal is the usual pick here for workloads that need EU data residency, single-tenant performance that does not move, and a short network path to the Iberian eyeball networks peering in the metro.
Common deployments include CDN and streaming origin nodes serving Spanish-language catalogs, game servers covering Iberian player bases, payment platforms that have to evidence PCI DSS certified hosting, and API endpoints positioned to answer customers in Spain and Portugal from the same rack.
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 Spain
Zenlayer's Madrid footprint includes IP transit at two sites, Cloud Connect at two sites, and Cloud WAN and CDN each from one site. What matters is where those ports sit: the Spanish domestic backbones, international transit carriers, and content networks all meet in Madrid, so traffic reaches Iberian eyeball networks directly instead of detouring through Northern Europe.
Private connectivity comes from the two Cloud Connect sites and the single Cloud WAN site. The Cloud Connect ports carry enterprise traffic onto dedicated circuits instead of public internet paths, which takes a class of routing variability out of the picture. Cloud WAN then treats Madrid as one segment of a wider software-defined estate rather than a standalone island in Iberia.
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 Spain
Colocation is offered from one of the five Madrid facilities, for teams that want to own the hardware without owning the building. Because bare metal sits at two sites and IP transit at two sites in the same metro, a mixed estate of racked equipment and managed Zenlayer compute stays inside one city and one commercial relationship instead of being split across providers.
The certification set recorded on the Spanish facilities covers ISO 27001 for information security, ISO 9001 for quality management, ISO 14001 and ISO 50001 for environmental and energy management, ISO 22301 for business continuity, and PCI DSS with an accompanying AoC. Payment, public sector, and regulated enterprise buyers normally have to evidence several of these before a rack request clears procurement.
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 Spain
Data Centers in Spain
5 totalMadrid
Iberian capital and the preferred bridge between Southern Europe and Latin American audiences.
5 DCs
Madrid
Iberian capital and the preferred bridge between Southern Europe and Latin American audiences.
| Services | ||
|---|---|---|
| EU-Madrid1(Interxion_MAD2 )MAD1 | Interxion | ColoBMCIP TransitCloud WANCloud ConnectCDN |
| EU-Madrid2(Interxion_MAD3)MAD2 | Interxion | ColoBMCIP TransitCloud Connect |
| EU-Madrid3(DRT_MAD1)MAD3 | Telx | Colo |
| EU-Madrid4(DRT_MAD2)MAD4 | Telx | Colo |
| EU-Madrid5(Equinix_MD2)MAD5 |  | Colo |
FAQs
Common questions about deploying compute, networking, and colocation infrastructure in Spain.
Does Zenlayer have data centers in Spain outside Madrid?
<p>No. All 5 of Zenlayer's Spanish data centers sit in the Madrid metro, which concentrates the country's carrier density, exchange capacity, and cloud on-ramps in one market. Madrid is also where the domestic backbones meet the international routes leaving Iberia, so a single metro footprint covers Spanish audiences and the westward paths toward Latin America without a second site.</p>
Which services are available at the Madrid data centers?
<p>Madrid carries bare metal cloud (BMC) at two sites, IP transit at two sites, and Cloud Connect at two sites, with colocation, Cloud WAN, CDN, and public cloud each offered from one site. Availability differs by building rather than by metro, so Zenlayer scopes the specific facility during design once the transit, on-ramp, and rack requirements for the workload are known.</p>
What does a Madrid deployment give you that a Northern European site does not?
<p>Three things specific to Iberia: peering that reaches Spanish and Portuguese eyeball networks without transiting another country, subsea routes to the Americas that start on the Spanish coast rather than after a hop north, and EU jurisdiction for residency. Zenlayer also runs Portugal, France, Italy, and Germany, so Madrid works as the Iberian anchor of a wider European estate.</p>
How does Madrid fit into traffic between Europe and Latin America?
<p>Spain's coastline hosts landing stations for trans-Atlantic cable systems linking Europe to the Americas, and Madrid is the inland meet point where they hand off to terrestrial backbones. Serving Latin American users from Madrid avoids the northward backhaul to London or Amsterdam that adds a leg before the traffic crosses the ocean, shortening the path for delivery, gaming, and financial workloads.</p>
Which compliance certifications do the Madrid facilities hold?
<p>The Spanish facility certifications on record are ISO 27001, ISO 9001, ISO 14001, ISO 50001, ISO 22301, and PCI DSS with an AoC. That set covers information security, quality, environmental and energy management, business continuity, and cardholder data handling. Zenlayer can confirm which certifications apply to a specific building as part of scoping, since coverage is recorded per facility.</p>
Deploy Infrastructure in Spain
Tell Zenlayer what you are serving into Iberia and across the Atlantic, and the team will work out which of the five Madrid facilities carries the transit, private connectivity, and rack space the workload needs.