{
  "title": "Data residency",
  "description": "Select or document the geographic region where covered product data is stored or processed.",
  "slug": "data-residency",
  "locale": "en",
  "seoTitle": "Data residency controls compatibility — Can My Agent Use",
  "socialTitle": "Data residency",
  "socialDescription": "Compare storage and processing regions for content, inference, logs, and backups.",
  "llmSummary": "Data residency is the documented geographic location of covered storage or processing; storage residency does not automatically establish regional inference.",
  "audience": "Compliance, security, and procurement teams with geographic requirements.",
  "contentKind": "feature",
  "status": "published",
  "tags": [
    "security",
    "privacy",
    "residency",
    "region"
  ],
  "updated": "2026-08-28T00:00:00.000Z",
  "published": "2026-08-28T00:00:00.000Z",
  "category": "security-privacy",
  "summary": "Select or document geographic storage or processing regions.",
  "specLabel": "Common product term",
  "aliases": [
    "regional processing",
    "data location",
    "EU data residency"
  ],
  "capabilityKind": "atomic",
  "parent": "data-security-controls",
  "related": [
    "local-only-mode",
    "data-retention-controls"
  ],
  "relations": [],
  "highlight": false,
  "notes": [
    {
      "id": 2,
      "text": "Evidence checked 2026-08-28: Anthropic documents US storage for commercial Claude data and offers US-only inference to usage-based Enterprise organizations. The inference setting covers all Claude apps, including Claude Code and Desktop, but excludes storage, connectors, support, analytics, and other non-inference processing, so the catalog marks each applicable surface partial."
    },
    {
      "id": 3,
      "text": "Evidence checked 2026-08-28: Cursor Enterprise offers team-scoped US-only residency for supported model inference, content processing, storage, backups, and Cloud Agents, plus EU and Iceland inference-only coverage on request. Authentication, external integrations, some indexing, BYOK, shared links, and other listed paths remain outside the guarantee."
    }
  ],
  "issues": [],
  "resources": [
    {
      "title": "Methodology",
      "href": "/methodology",
      "kind": "note"
    },
    {
      "title": "OpenAI — Data controls and data residency",
      "href": "https://platform.openai.com/docs/models/default-usage-policies-by-endpoint",
      "kind": "docs",
      "publisher": "OpenAI",
      "reviewedAt": "2026-08-28"
    },
    {
      "title": "OpenAI — Data residency and inference residency for ChatGPT",
      "href": "https://help.openai.com/en/articles/9903489-eu-data-residency",
      "kind": "docs",
      "publisher": "OpenAI",
      "reviewedAt": "2026-08-28"
    },
    {
      "id": "anthropic-commercial-data-location",
      "title": "Anthropic Privacy Center — Server and model locations",
      "href": "https://privacy.claude.com/en/articles/7996890-where-are-your-servers-located-do-you-host-your-models-on-eu-servers",
      "kind": "docs",
      "publisher": "Anthropic",
      "evidenceType": "documented",
      "reviewedAt": "2026-08-28",
      "locator": "Commercial products; routing; storage location"
    },
    {
      "id": "anthropic-us-only-inference",
      "title": "Anthropic Help Center — Enable US-only inference",
      "href": "https://support.claude.com/en/articles/15422948-enable-us-only-inference-for-your-organization",
      "kind": "docs",
      "publisher": "Anthropic",
      "evidenceType": "documented",
      "reviewedAt": "2026-08-28",
      "locator": "Scope; eligible plans; exclusions"
    },
    {
      "id": "cursor-residency",
      "title": "Cursor Docs — Privacy and data governance",
      "href": "https://prod.cursor.com/docs/enterprise/privacy-and-data-governance",
      "kind": "docs",
      "publisher": "Cursor",
      "evidenceType": "documented",
      "reviewedAt": "2026-08-28",
      "locator": "Data residency; US data residency; exceptions"
    }
  ],
  "support": [
    {
      "harness": "claude-web",
      "versions": [
        {
          "track": "current",
          "status": "partial",
          "noteIds": [
            2
          ],
          "target": {
            "kind": "hosted-observation",
            "revision": "2026-08-28 Claude Enterprise location documentation observation",
            "observedAt": "2026-08-28"
          },
          "environmentProfile": "enterprise-managed",
          "qualifiers": [
            {
              "type": "plan",
              "value": "US-only inference is available to usage-based Enterprise organizations and applies organization-wide; contractual routing restrictions may also apply"
            },
            {
              "type": "policy",
              "value": "commercial-product data is documented as stored in the US; the selectable control constrains inference to the US rather than offering multiple storage regions"
            },
            {
              "type": "runtime",
              "value": "connectors, support, analytics, storage, and other non-inference processing are outside the US-only inference setting"
            }
          ],
          "evidence": [
            {
              "resourceId": "anthropic-commercial-data-location",
              "type": "documented",
              "observedAt": "2026-08-28"
            },
            {
              "resourceId": "anthropic-us-only-inference",
              "type": "documented",
              "observedAt": "2026-08-28"
            }
          ]
        }
      ]
    },
    {
      "harness": "claude-desktop",
      "versions": [
        {
          "track": "current",
          "status": "partial",
          "noteIds": [
            2
          ],
          "target": {
            "kind": "hosted-observation",
            "revision": "2026-08-28 Claude Desktop inference-location documentation observation",
            "observedAt": "2026-08-28"
          },
          "environmentProfile": "enterprise-managed",
          "qualifiers": [
            {
              "type": "plan",
              "value": "the usage-based Enterprise US-only inference setting explicitly applies to Claude Desktop and the organization's other Claude apps"
            },
            {
              "type": "policy",
              "value": "commercial-product data remains documented as stored in the US, while the control constrains inference only"
            },
            {
              "type": "runtime",
              "value": "connectors, support, analytics, storage, and other non-inference processing are outside the setting"
            }
          ],
          "evidence": [
            {
              "resourceId": "anthropic-commercial-data-location",
              "type": "documented",
              "observedAt": "2026-08-28"
            },
            {
              "resourceId": "anthropic-us-only-inference",
              "type": "documented",
              "observedAt": "2026-08-28"
            }
          ]
        }
      ]
    },
    {
      "harness": "claude-cli",
      "versions": [
        {
          "track": "current",
          "status": "partial",
          "noteIds": [
            2
          ],
          "target": {
            "kind": "hosted-observation",
            "revision": "2026-08-28 Claude Code inference-location documentation observation",
            "observedAt": "2026-08-28"
          },
          "environmentProfile": "enterprise-managed",
          "qualifiers": [
            {
              "type": "plan",
              "value": "the usage-based Enterprise US-only inference setting explicitly applies to Claude Code signed into that organization"
            },
            {
              "type": "policy",
              "value": "the setting constrains inference to the US but does not establish local-only execution or multiple selectable storage regions"
            },
            {
              "type": "runtime",
              "value": "connectors, support, analytics, storage, local files, and other non-inference processing have separate location boundaries"
            }
          ],
          "evidence": [
            {
              "resourceId": "anthropic-commercial-data-location",
              "type": "documented",
              "observedAt": "2026-08-28"
            },
            {
              "resourceId": "anthropic-us-only-inference",
              "type": "documented",
              "observedAt": "2026-08-28"
            }
          ]
        }
      ]
    },
    {
      "harness": "cursor",
      "versions": [
        {
          "track": "current",
          "status": "yes",
          "noteIds": [
            3
          ],
          "target": {
            "kind": "hosted-observation",
            "revision": "2026-08-28 Cursor Enterprise residency documentation observation",
            "observedAt": "2026-08-28"
          },
          "environmentProfile": "enterprise-managed",
          "qualifiers": [
            {
              "type": "plan",
              "value": "US-only residency is enabled per Enterprise team through the account team; EU and Iceland inference-only coverage is available on request"
            },
            {
              "type": "policy",
              "value": "supported US-only coverage includes model inference, content-processing pipelines, customer-data storage and backups, Cloud Agents, Tab, editing, autocomplete, and semantic search"
            },
            {
              "type": "runtime",
              "value": "eligible models are restricted, and authentication, some indexing, BYOK, custom models, MCP and web integrations, Bugbot, shared links, and Slack or web triggers have documented exceptions"
            }
          ],
          "evidence": [
            {
              "resourceId": "cursor-residency",
              "type": "documented",
              "observedAt": "2026-08-28"
            }
          ]
        }
      ]
    }
  ],
  "html": "/features/data-residency",
  "markdown": "/features/data-residency.md",
  "json": "/api/v1/features/data-residency.json",
  "body": "This row asks where each data class is stored and processed. Storage residency does not necessarily constrain model inference, transient processing, support access, telemetry, safety systems, caches, backups, connectors, or third-party tools.\n\nEvidence should name selectable regions, default placement, migration behavior, plan and contract requirements, excluded features, disaster-recovery locations, subprocessors, and whether local clients send content outside the selected boundary."
}