Data Residency
Data residency is the requirement that personal or regulated data stays within a specified geographic region throughout processing, storage, and backup.
What is Data Residency?
Data residency is a contractual and configuration concern. Cloud providers offer EU regions; model API providers offer EU-only routing; vector databases offer regional clusters. Residency is distinct from data transfer (the legal mechanism for moving data) and from sovereignty (state-level control over data and infrastructure). Enterprise buyers in EU finance, healthcare, and the public sector frequently require EU residency end-to-end.
How does Data Residency apply to enterprise AI?
Impetora deploys EU-resident infrastructure by default and documents every component's region in /security. This is one of the most common procurement filters.
Related terms
- Sub-processor - A sub-processor is a third party that processes personal data on behalf of a processor, typically an infrastructure or software vendor sitting beneath the primary service provider.
- GDPR - The General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) is the EU's data-protection regulation, governing the processing of personal data of people in the EU and EEA.
- EU AI Act - The EU AI Act (Regulation (EU) 2024/1689) is the European Union's horizontal regulation for AI, classifying systems by risk and imposing obligations on providers, deployers, importers, and distributors.
- AI Risk Management - AI risk management is the discipline of identifying, assessing, mitigating, and monitoring the harms an AI system can cause across its lifecycle.
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