Anypoint Platform Hosting Overview
Host the Anypoint Platform control plane and runtime plane in different locations to meet your security, data privacy, and compliance requirements. Choose from MuleSoft-managed cloud options or self-hosted environments to control where your data is stored and processed. The control plane location, runtime hosting option, and runtime region are independent choices.
Control Plane and Runtime Plane
Anypoint Platform architecture separates into two distinct planes that can be hosted independently:
- Control plane
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The management layer of Anypoint Platform, where you design, deploy, and manage APIs and Mule apps. Your organization, identity, and design-time metadata live in this plane.
- Runtime plane
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The components where your APIs and Mule applications are deployed and made available to your users. The runtime plane includes the Mule runtime engine and supporting services.
Choosing a Hosting Option
Anypoint Platform lets you host the control plane and runtime plane independently. MuleSoft names each regional MuleSoft-managed control plane a cloud, for example US Cloud or EU Cloud. Each Anypoint Platform organization lives in exactly one cloud. Choose a cloud (where design-time data and metadata live) and a runtime option (who runs your applications and on what infrastructure). If you use CloudHub or CloudHub 2.0, also choose a runtime region (where those applications execute). After you choose a commercial cloud, see Anypoint Platform Control Planes Overview to sign in, create, and deploy.
Depending on your requirements, you can choose from these options:
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Use Anypoint Platform in the MuleSoft-managed control plane and runtime plane.
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Host and manage the runtime plane within your own infrastructure while connecting it with the MuleSoft-managed control plane.
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Host both the control plane and runtime plane locally within your infrastructure.
These sections list the available options. Use Control Plane and Runtime Plane Compatibility to confirm which combinations are supported. After you choose a runtime option, see High Availability and Disaster Recovery Across Deployment Models for how each model stays available and who owns failover.
Control Plane Hosting Options
MuleSoft provides cloud-managed and self-hosted control plane options. This table summarizes each option, including data residency and applicable compliance standards.
| Control Plane | Platform URL | Data Residency | Description | Compliance / Notes |
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United States |
MuleSoft-managed control plane hosted in the US. Supports the widest range of runtime regions globally. See Anypoint Platform Control Planes Overview. |
Standard commercial terms |
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European Union |
MuleSoft-managed control plane hosted in the EU. Supports EU-based runtime regions. See Anypoint Platform Control Planes Overview. |
EU data residency |
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Canada |
MuleSoft-managed control plane on Salesforce Hyperforce, with one in-country runtime region. See Anypoint Platform Control Planes Overview. |
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Japan |
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India |
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Australia |
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United States |
Federal Risk and Authorization Management Program (FedRAMP)-compliant control plane managed by MuleSoft, suitable for US government agencies. |
FedRAMP authorized. See MuleSoft Government Cloud Overview. |
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Customer-Hosted (Anypoint Platform Private Cloud Edition (PCE)) |
N/A (self-hosted) |
Customer-managed |
Self-hosted control plane deployed in your own data center, virtual server, or third-party cloud (for example, Amazon Web Services (AWS)). You control where assets and metadata are stored. |
Full data sovereignty. See Anypoint Platform PCE. Some Anypoint Platform components aren’t supported. |
Runtime Plane Hosting Options
MuleSoft provides different options for hosting the runtime plane:
| Runtime Option | Description | Managed By |
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Fully managed, containerized integration platform as a service (iPaaS) for running APIs and integrations as lightweight containers in the cloud. Supports auto-scaling, high availability, and dynamic infrastructure across the runtime regions available in your control plane. |
MuleSoft |
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Cloud-based environment for running Mule applications in the cloud. Supports high availability, clustering, failover, and load balancing. |
MuleSoft |
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Container service for running Mule applications and API gateways in your data center or third-party cloud. Supports high availability, failover, clustering, and load balancing with bundled Docker and Kubernetes. |
Customer (infrastructure) and MuleSoft (orchestration) |
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Mule runtime engine for running applications in your environment (physical server, virtual machine (VM), or cloud such as AWS or Azure). Supports centralized management through the MuleSoft control plane while keeping deployments within your trust boundary. |
Customer (infrastructure) and MuleSoft (management) |
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Mule runtime engine for running applications on a single instance with no required connection to the control plane. Requires you to manage high availability, failover, clustering, and load balancing, and is suited for air-gapped or disconnected environments. |
Customer (fully self-managed) |
If you use CloudHub or CloudHub 2.0, you also choose a runtime region: the geographic location where those applications execute. A runtime region is independent of control plane data residency. For example, deploying to Canada (Montreal) from US Cloud does not give you Canada Cloud. Runtime Fabric, Hybrid Standalone, and On-Premises runtimes run in your infrastructure and don’t use MuleSoft-managed runtime regions.
For CloudHub 2.0 regions, identifiers, and DNS records, see Runtime Plane Regions and DNS Records.
Control Plane and Runtime Plane Compatibility
This matrix shows which runtime plane options you can deploy to from each control plane. On-premises runtimes aren’t listed because they don’t require a control plane. You install Mule and deploy applications to that instance. If you register the Runtime Manager agent so Anypoint Platform can manage that instance, it becomes a Hybrid Standalone runtime. See Run Mule Runtime Engine On-Premises.
| Runtime Plane | US Cloud | EU Cloud | Canada Cloud, Japan Cloud, India Cloud, Australia Cloud | MuleSoft Government Cloud | Anypoint Platform PCE |
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CloudHub 2.0 |
Yes |
Yes |
Yes |
Yes |
No |
CloudHub |
Yes |
Yes |
No |
Yes |
No |
Runtime Fabric |
Yes |
Yes |
Yes |
No |
No |
Hybrid Standalone Runtimes |
Yes |
Yes |
Yes |
Yes |
Yes |