The crossroads of Europe and the Middle East — a transcontinental connectivity hub serving Turkey's 85 million users and regional markets.
Dedicated bare metal servers in Istanbul with strong links to European and Middle Eastern ISPs, serving Turkey's booming digital economy.Explore Features
Istanbul is uniquely positioned at the crossroads of Europe, the Middle East, and Central Asia. Our facility leverages this transcontinental geography to provide optimal routing to European and Middle Eastern networks from a single location.
Turkey's rapidly growing digital economy, with 85 million tech-savvy users and a thriving startup ecosystem, makes Istanbul an essential hub. Our Istanbul ZEC and bare metal cloud solutions serve e-commerce, gaming, and enterprise applications targeting this large domestic market.
Quick answers to common questions about deploying compute, bare metal and cloud connectivity in Istanbul.
Zenlayer's Istanbul location is in the EUROPE / MIDDLE EAST region. It peers locally via TurkIX (Turkey Internet Exchange), TIIX. Upstream connectivity is provided through Türk Telekom, Turkcell, Superonline, NTT.
Zenlayer Cloud Connect supports dedicated Layer 2 paths from Istanbul to major hyperscalers. See the Cloud Connect panel on this page for the clouds currently available at this location.
Istanbul is connected to the Zenlayer private backbone with deterministic, low-latency paths to other Zenlayer locations. The full latency matrix is published on this page. You can also use Looking Glass on this page to run live PING / MTR / BGP checks.
Bare metal cloud (BMC) servers aren't generally available in Istanbul yet. Contact us to scope custom or bulk deployments, or see the Bare Metal documentation to explore other Zenlayer locations.
Zenlayer Elastic Compute (ZEC) virtual machines aren't available in Istanbul yet. Contact us for availability, or see the Elastic Compute documentation to explore other Zenlayer locations.
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Deploy your infrastructure in Istanbul and serve Turkey's 85 million users plus the entire EU-ME corridor.