Regions and data residency

Uniform's data residency options allow you to control where your data is physically stored and processed. Choosing the right region for your data residency needs helps you:

  • Meet compliance requirements like GDPR for European data
  • Optimize performance by managing content closer to your users
  • Satisfy data residency and sovereignty policies required by your organization

Your team's region is assigned when your account is created and specified in your Uniform contract. Once assigned, teams cannot migrate between regions. Teams are pinned to a single region. That region applies to all projects and users in the team. If you need to have projects in multiple regions, you can create a Uniform team for each region.

Uniform is available in the following regions:

  • US: Virginia, USA (us-east-1)
  • EU: Frankfurt, Germany (eu-central-1)

When selecting a data residency region for your Uniform team, consider the following:

  • Default choice: If you don't have strict regulatory or data residency requirements, and your team and/or customers are mostly in the Americas, choose the US data center.
  • Recommended for EU compliance: If your business would benefit from data residency in a region geographically closer to, or in the EU, or if you have needs for stricter data protection laws, choose the EU data center.

The EU data center is ideal for customers who need to comply with European data privacy regulations, such as GDPR, or who want to keep their data geographically closer to their European users for latency and performance reasons. Uniform's global edge delivery ensures optimal performance across all regions regardless of your chosen data center.

Understanding where your data resides is critical for compliance with data protection regulations. Uniform provides clear data residency options to help you meet your compliance requirements.

If you choose the EU data center for data residency, all your Uniform data will be stored within the EU, including:

  • Uniform entities
  • Project data
  • Account information for team members

Uniform primarily relies on infrastructure located in Germany, with key sub-processors based in Germany and Ireland. Due to the global nature of Uniform's services however, your data would still be processed on servers outside of the EU, for example when utilizing our global edge delivery.

ServiceUS regionEU region
Dashboardhttps://uniform.apphttps://eu.uniform.app
Edge delivery APIhttps://uniform.globalhttps://eu.uniform.global
Management APIhttps://uniform.app/apihttps://eu.uniform.app/api
Image delivery APIhttps://img.uniform.globalhttps://img.eu.uniform.global

For US region: No additional configuration is needed. Uniform SDKs and CLI communicate with the US data center by default.

For EU region: You must configure your SDKs and CLI to communicate with the EU data center using one of the following methods:

Add the apiHost parameter when creating the client:

const client = new CanvasClient({ apiHost: 'https://eu.uniform.app', edgeAPiHost: 'https://eu.uniform.global', apiKey: process.env.UNIFORM_API_KEY, projectId: process.env.UNIFORM_PROJECT_ID, });

Copy environment variables when creating API key

When creating an API key for EU projects, you can copy the complete .env settings provided during the API key creation process. These settings include all EU-specific endpoints needed for both SDK and CLI configuration.

.env

# Authentication to Uniform UNIFORM_API_KEY=<api-key> UNIFORM_PROJECT_ID=<project-id> # EU region endpoints UNIFORM_CLI_BASE_EDGE_URL=https://eu.uniform.global UNIFORM_CLI_BASE_URL=https://eu.uniform.app

Option 1: Use the -apiHost parameter with each command:

uniform context pull -apiHost https://eu.uniform.app

Option 2: Set the UNIFORM_CLI_BASE_URL environment variable:

UNIFORM_CLI_BASE_URL=https://eu.uniform.app uniform context pull

It is not possible to switch regions for an existing team as the data and infrastructure of each region are fully isolated. However, you can migrate your data to a new team in the target region.

If you need to switch regions:

  1. Contact Uniform support to request a new team in the target region (US or EU).
  2. Once the new team is created, reinvite all users to the new team.
  3. Use the Uniform CLI to recreate your projects and their content. See backup and restore steps in the CLI guide.
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