Australian based Zoom instance

[Litsol]

State government schools in my area typically cannot connect to my Zoom meetings because they advise Zoom is not authorised on their network.  The Chief Information Security Officer for the government advised that, "The department supports meetings hosted externally to the department, however, the host must be Australian-based and using the Australia Zoom cluster services, as a paid Zoom customer."

I am an Australian user paying for the Zoom service, however I'm unsure what is meant by "using the Australia Zoom cluster services".  What does that mean? How do I know if I'm using that service or not?

Thanks folks

[Bort]

Hi @Litsol 

They are likely worried about your data and meeting traffic being routed through non-Australian based servers. You can adjust which regions you want your data to only pass through. 

[chrismacrae]

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[Litsol]

Hi Bort

You're right, they are very risk averse. Do you know where in the Zoom profile that I can adjust the regions data will pass through?

Thanks

[Bort]

@Litsol, check the link I provided in my initial response. There is a setting named  Customize data center regions for meeting/webinar data in transit on your profile page.