Where your data lives
You choose the hosting provider and the country of each cluster. What that means for the applicable law, and what never leaves it.
You choose the country
Section titled “You choose the country”When you create a cluster, you choose the hosting provider and the region. Your services, their databases and their volumes run on that region’s machines. This choice doesn’t change without you: to move, you create another cluster.
- Where may your data go?: European Union shows only EU regions.
- Regions outside the European Union are flagged “outside EU” throughout the console.
European hosting providers
Section titled “European hosting providers”Fransys relies on European hosting providers: Hetzner, Scaleway and Outscale (OVHcloud coming soon), with regions in France, Germany, Finland and Poland. The up-to-date list of regions shows when you create a cluster. See Providers and regions.
Why it matters
Section titled “Why it matters”- Applicable law: providers under European law, in European data centres. US providers are subject to the Cloud Act, which lets US authorities request data stored by US companies, even in Europe.
- Your obligations: health, finance, public sector: data location is often a legal requirement. See Compliance.
- Latency: servers close to your European users respond faster.
On your own account
Section titled “On your own account”With your cloud account, the machines run on your account at the hosting provider: the contract and the bill for the machines are yours.