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# Routing Filters

> Limit CDN routing to specific geographic regions for compliance and data residency requirements.

Routing Filters allow you to control which CDN locations serve your content. When enabled, traffic is routed only to Points of Presence (PoPs) within the selected regions.

This is primarily useful for GDPR compliance and data residency requirements where you need to ensure user data stays within specific geographic boundaries.

## How it works

When you enable a routing filter (such as European Union or the European Economic Area), all requests to your Pull Zone are routed exclusively to PoPs within that region. Users outside the filtered region are also routed to those same locations.

<Info>
  Combining multiple routing filters creates a cross-section. Traffic is only
  routed to PoPs contained in **all** selected filters.
</Info>

## Available filters

### European Union (EU)

Routes all traffic exclusively through 24 PoPs within EU member states:

<Accordion title="EU countries with PoPs">
  Austria, Bulgaria, Croatia, Cyprus, Czech Republic, Denmark, Finland, France,
  Germany, Greece, Hungary, Ireland, Italy, Latvia, Lithuania, Luxembourg,
  Netherlands, Poland, Portugal, Romania, Slovakia, Slovenia, Spain, and Sweden.
</Accordion>

### European Economic Area (EEA)

The EEA extends the EU single market to three non-EU countries (Iceland, Liechtenstein, and Norway), all of which have adopted the GDPR. Choose this filter when you need the same data-residency guarantees as the EU filter but also want to serve users in these additional countries.

Routes all traffic exclusively through 26 PoPs, covering every EU PoP plus Iceland and Norway:

<Accordion title="EEA countries with PoPs">
  Austria, Bulgaria, Croatia, Cyprus, Czech Republic, Denmark, Finland, France,
  Germany, Greece, Hungary, Iceland, Ireland, Italy, Latvia, Lithuania,
  Luxembourg, Netherlands, Norway, Poland, Portugal, Romania, Slovakia,
  Slovenia, Spain, and Sweden.
</Accordion>

<Info>
  Liechtenstein is part of the EEA but currently has no bunny.net PoP. Because the
  EEA contains every EU country, the EEA filter is a superset of the EU filter,
  so selecting **both** is equivalent to selecting EU alone. Switzerland and the
  United Kingdom are **not** part of the EEA and are excluded by this filter.
</Info>

## Enabling Routing Filters

1. Go to your Pull Zone in the [dashboard](https://dash.bunny.net)
2. Navigate to **Pricing & Routing**
3. Enable the desired routing filter

The filter applies to both Standard and High Volume tier zones automatically.

## Performance considerations

<Warning>
  Routing Filters significantly limit global coverage. Users outside the
  filtered region will experience increased latency since their requests are
  routed to the nearest PoP within the filter, not the nearest global PoP.
</Warning>

For example, with the EU or EEA filter enabled:

* **EU / EEA users**: Excellent performance with local PoPs (24 for EU, 26 for EEA)
* **Everyone else**: Routed into the filtered region, negating most CDN performance benefits

Only enable Routing Filters if you have specific compliance requirements that outweigh the global performance trade-off.

## Limitations

<Note>
  Routing Filters only apply to CDN Pull Zone traffic. DNS traffic continues to
  use the global DNS network, but DNS requests generally don't contain
  personally identifiable information.
</Note>