In order to respond to organization’s need to have local data residency, Salesforce created Hyperforce.
Hyperforce is basically Salesforce infrastructure running on Amazon’s Amazon Web Services (AWS), Microsoft Azure, or Google Cloud Platform.
Before Hyperforce, Salesforce maintained their own servers in a handful of countries. With Hyperforce, Salesforce offers its platform to significantly more local and international locations.
To allow Salesforce to offer their infrastructure on “any” cloud server, there were a bunch of technical changes. This includes
- Increasing scalability, flexibility, and efficiency
- Being more compliant with local regulations
- Increasing security with a “secure by default” approach
- Being able to release updates more quickly and reliably
The takeaway
To see if your Salesforce instance is running on Hyperforce, go to https://availability.salesforce.com/find-my-instance and enter your Instance Id. You can find your Instance Id in Setup > Company Information > Instance (e.g. NA242)