For regulated buyers, where your data lives is a first-class control, not a footnote. Aona keeps your Workforce AI Security data resident in your own region across 7 live regions. Your prompts, file uploads, and audit logs stay in-country, so data residency becomes a reason to say yes, not a blocker in your security review.
AI data residency is the guarantee that the data an AI security platform collects about your organisation's AI use, including prompts, file-upload content, and audit logs, is stored and processed in a country or region you choose. It matters more for AI security tools than for most software, because the captured prompts contain the sensitive data itself. Aona keeps that data in-country across 7 live regions, so the region you pick is the region where your data lives.
Once you select a region, your prompts, AI interactions, file uploads, audit logs, and policy data are processed and stored on dedicated regional infrastructure in that region. They are not moved to another region for processing or storage, and data retention is configurable per customer.
Last updated: 12 June 2026
of organisations report that employees using shadow AI have inadvertently created data sovereignty violations by routing sensitive data through offshore AI servers.
Wherever your team works, Aona runs in the same region. Sensitive data is inspected, secured, and kept under local jurisdiction, and never crosses a border it shouldn't. Deploy across seven managed regions, on-premise, or inside your own cloud.
Pick a region and your AI usage data, prompts, and audit logs stay there. Each region keeps your data resident in-country.
| Region | Data stays in | Best for |
|---|---|---|
| Australia (Sydney) | Australia | Australian financial services, government, and regulated mid-market. |
| France (Paris) | France (EU) | French and EU organisations with GDPR data-residency requirements. |
| United Kingdom (London) | United Kingdom | UK financial services, legal, insurance, and public sector. |
| Germany (Frankfurt) | Germany (EU) | German buyers with data-sovereignty and GDPR expectations. |
| United States (Central) | United States | US-headquartered organisations that need data kept onshore. |
| Singapore | Singapore | APAC organisations subject to Singapore PDPA and regional policy. |
| Hong Kong | Hong Kong | Hong Kong financial services and APAC regulated buyers. |
Data stays in: Australia
Best for: Australian financial services, government, and regulated mid-market.
Data stays in: France (EU)
Best for: French and EU organisations with GDPR data-residency requirements.
Data stays in: United Kingdom
Best for: UK financial services, legal, insurance, and public sector.
Data stays in: Germany (EU)
Best for: German buyers with data-sovereignty and GDPR expectations.
Data stays in: United States
Best for: US-headquartered organisations that need data kept onshore.
Data stays in: Singapore
Best for: APAC organisations subject to Singapore PDPA and regional policy.
Data stays in: Hong Kong
Best for: Hong Kong financial services and APAC regulated buyers.
In every region, your AI usage data, prompts, and audit logs stay in that region.
Every region runs the same platform on dedicated regional infrastructure. What changes is where your data lives, and which regulatory conversation it answers.
Keeps AI usage data onshore for Australian organisations subject to the Privacy Act and for buyers in financial services, government, and healthcare where offshore data raises procurement questions. Aona is headquartered in Sydney.
In-country French storage inside the EU. Suits French organisations that want a GDPR-aligned answer with data physically held in France, not just somewhere in the EEA, and EU buyers that prefer a French region.
A UK answer rather than a wider EU answer. Built for UK financial services, legal, insurance, and public-sector buyers whose security reviews ask specifically whether data leaves the United Kingdom.
In-country German storage inside the EU for buyers with data-sovereignty expectations on top of GDPR. German organisations, including those where works councils review how employee AI activity data is handled, get data held in Germany.
Keeps data onshore for US-headquartered organisations and US subsidiaries that need a domestic answer for security reviews, state privacy laws, and internal data-handling standards.
Supports organisations subject to the Singapore PDPA and APAC buyers that want a Singapore-resident deployment. Suits regional headquarters governing AI use across Southeast Asia.
Keeps data resident for Hong Kong organisations subject to the Personal Data (Privacy) Ordinance, including financial services and other regulated buyers that need an in-territory answer.
Regulated mid-market buyers in financial services, legal, insurance, government, and healthcare are the ones asking these questions first. A clear in-country answer moves the security review forward.
GDPR expects personal data processed by EU organisations to stay within an appropriate region, and German buyers add their own data-sovereignty expectations on top.
UK organisations, especially in financial services and the public sector, increasingly require data to remain in the UK rather than the wider EU.
APAC buyers face a patchwork of local data-protection regimes, so a regional answer matters for procurement and regulator conversations.
Aona deploys regional infrastructure for each region, so your data is processed and stored in-country from the moment you go live.
At the start of your deployment you select the region your organisation needs. That choice sets where your data is processed and stored.
Aona runs dedicated regional cloud infrastructure per region, with in-country data storage. Your data is processed and stored in that region.
Your prompts, file-upload content, audit logs, and policy data stay resident in your region. Data retention is configurable per customer.
Everything Aona captures to govern AI use stays in the region you select.
The text employees send to AI tools, and the model responses captured for governance, stay in your region.
Documents and files employees upload to AI tools, and the content extracted from them, are stored in-region.
The full record of AI usage, policy events, and security alerts your team relies on for evidence stays in-region.
The data classifiers, policies, and configuration that drive enforcement are held in your region alongside the events they govern.
Two practical guides for teams putting data residency questions into their AI security evaluation.
Ten questions CISOs should ask before signing, plus what vendor documentation typically does and does not disclose.
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EU & UK guideWhat GDPR and UK GDPR actually require for transfers, what regulators have signaled about AI tools, and what to verify in vendor DPAs.
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