# Regional url and api\_url

**URL:** <https://devforum.zoom.us/t/regional-url-and-api-url/138217>\
**Category:** API and Webhooks\
**Created:** [October 23, 2025, 9:44am UTC](https://devforum.zoom.us/t/regional-url-and-api-url/138217 "2025-10-23T09:44:36Z")\
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**Author:** ![ruben.gaspar.aparici](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/f14d63/32.png) [@ruben.gaspar.aparici](https://devforum.zoom.us/u/ruben.gaspar.aparici)\
**Post date:** [October 23, 2025, 9:44am UTC](https://devforum.zoom.us/t/regional-url-and-api-url/138217/1 "2025-10-23T09:44:36Z")

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Dear All,

Due to last Monday’s issue on Zoom [1] caused by an AWS downtime, and since we are working from an EU-provisioned account, we looked into ways to continue working with Zoom despite the AWS issue in the US. One option is to use regional URLs [2]. So, in order to get a token, we do:

## POST [https://api-eu.zoom.us/oauth/token](https://api-eu.zoom.us/oauth/token)

{  
“access\_token”: XXX,  
“token\_type”: “bearer”,  
“expires\_in”: 3599,  
“scope”: “meeting:write:meeting:admin meeting:update:meeting:admin meeting:update:livestream:admin meeting:update:livestream\_status:admin meeting:read:live\_streaming\_token:admin”,  
“api\_url”: “[https://cern.zoom.us](https://cern.zoom.us)”  
}

Since we already know we are going to work with that `api_url`, could we use it by default for all API interactions?

## Thank you very much, Ruben

[1] [Zoom Status - Issue with Zoom Services](https://www.zoomstatus.com/incidents/yy70hmbp61r9)  
[2] [Using Zoom APIs](https://developers.zoom.us/docs/api/using-zoom-apis/#regional-base-urls)

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**Author:** ![amonnich](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex016/user_avatar/devforum.zoom.us/amonnich/32/43455_2.png) [@amonnich](https://devforum.zoom.us/u/amonnich)\
**Post date:** [October 27, 2025, 8:14am UTC](https://devforum.zoom.us/t/regional-url-and-api-url/138217/2 "2025-10-27T08:14:04Z")

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Just to add some context (I’m a colleague of @ruben.gaspar.aparici):

The main question here is whether the `/oauth/token` endpoint should always be called via `https://zoom.us` as your documentation examples do, or if there is any benefit in also using our vanity URL or something like `api-eu`.

I would appreciate if this could be clarified on the Zoom side (in your docs). To me it seems odd that you’d use the generic (`zoom.us` or even `api.zoom.us`) hostname for this, when there’s also a region-specific one where it works (I tested it).

Especially during the recent (AWS us-east) outage I wonder if using our vanity host (which points to `api-eu`) would have avoided any API downtimes…

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**Author:** ![system](https://us1.discourse-cdn.com/flex016/uploads/zoomdeveloper/original/3X/6/1/614bdd549b610bbaa46ff934617683a02bdaa03c.png) [@system](https://devforum.zoom.us/u/system)\
**Post date:** [October 30, 2026, 11:50pm UTC](https://devforum.zoom.us/t/regional-url-and-api-url/138217/3 "2026-10-30T23:50:45Z")

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