Data Residency & Data Regions

Agility Content (the management and content APIs) stores each instance's data at rest in a single customer-selected data region, hosted on Microsoft Azure. Five regions are available — US North Central, US East, Canada Central, West Europe, and Australia — and an instance provisioned in a given region keeps its structured content, metadata, and media assets at rest within that region's Azure data centres. Organizations with Canadian data-residency requirements can provision in Canada Central, keeping content data at rest in Canada. Data-at-rest residency is distinct from delivery: Agility's global edge/CDN layer caches and serves copies of published content close to end users worldwide, and that delivery layer is not bound by the content-storage region.

Data residency: structured content and assets stay encrypted at rest in one selected region, while published content is distributed as transient copies across a global edge network.

Available data regions

An Agility instance is provisioned into one of five Azure regions. The region determines where the instance's system-of-record data lives at rest.

Region	Area
US North Central	United States
US East	United States
Canada Central	Canada
West Europe	Europe
Australia	Australia

The data region is selected when the instance is provisioned. It can be changed later, but moving an instance to a different region requires planning time and a statement of work. Organizations with strict residency requirements should therefore select the appropriate region at the outset.

What is stored, and where

Agility runs on Microsoft Azure. All of an instance's data resides in the selected region — including structured content and metadata (content items, models, pages, users, workflow state, version history) and uploaded media/file assets. The system of record for an instance stays at rest in that one region.

Data-at-rest residency guarantee

Content data at rest remains in the region selected at provisioning, and is encrypted at rest (see Hosting, Security & Compliance for encryption and key-management detail). Disaster-recovery replication stays within the same broader regional (country) boundary — for example, a Canada Central instance is replicated within Canada (to Canada East) — so backups and DR copies do not leave the residency boundary (see Disaster Recovery & Business Continuity).

Edge delivery is a separate layer (not bound by content residency)

Agility delivers published content and assets through a globally distributed edge/CDN layer. When an end user requests content, the response is served from — and cached at — the edge location nearest them, anywhere in the world. This is a delivery and caching layer, not the system of record:

The authoritative copy of content remains at rest in the selected region.
Edge nodes hold transient cached copies of published content to reduce latency; they are not a durable store.
Because delivery is global by design, the fact that an instance stores data in Canada Central does not mean cached copies are served only from Canada. Performance for global audiences depends on global edge presence.

For Canadian public-sector-adjacent requirements, the key distinction to communicate is: data-at-rest residency (Canada Central) is guaranteed at the storage layer; content delivery is global. The platform's global edge/CDN delivery cannot be geographically restricted at this time — published content is cached and served from edge locations worldwide. Where a requirement mandates that delivered/cached copies stay within a specific country, that constraint has to be addressed at the customer's own front-end CDN and delivery architecture, not the platform delivery layer. See Content Delivery & CDN Architecture.

Shared responsibilities

Area	Agility	Implementation partner / customer
Storage region of the content system of record	Provisions and operates the instance in the selected Azure region; keeps data at rest in-region	Selects the correct region at provisioning to meet residency requirements
Encryption at rest	Provided by the Azure platform	—
Front-end hosting region	—	Chooses where the customer's website/app and their own CDN run, which determines where delivered copies are cached
Delivery-residency constraints (if any)	Operates the platform edge layer	Validates whether delivery-residency (not just storage-residency) is required, and designs the front-end/CDN to enforce it