We're working on a digital twin for a multi-national customer. The APS/Forge account is registered in the EU. Our users in the US report subpar performance, presumably because all model data is fetched from the Autodesk EMEA cloud frontends.
Is it possible to build a multi-region viewer without manually duplicating all model content to a separate US APS account?
Is this blog post still accurate and a derivative can only be created in one region? https://aps.autodesk.com/blog/data-management-and-model-derivative-regions
Or is my question completely irrelevant and Autodesk is replicating model data between regions and transparently routing users based on origin?
The main purpose of regions in our case is to enable companies to prevent their data from being stored outside the region they need to keep their data in (for e.g. contractual reasons).
If you need better performance when viewing 3d models, I'd suggest trying SVF2 - that's much more optimized and shares resources across all models that may be distributed around the world. See https://aps.autodesk.com/blog/update-svf2-ga-new-streaming-web-format-forge-viewer-now-production-ready
You can also reach out to us on [email protected] regarding speed issues and our team can have a look.