Possible to specify where Drive data is stored?

[dwayneking]

I have several Gmail accounts for our local community service group.  Since we are part of a larger organization, we are supposed to follow a few rules, like ensuring that anything that our local council stores electronically, is located in Canada.

Is it currently possible to specify where the data I put in Drive is stored (think GDPR)?  I understand the whole data center, geographically redundant data storage, etc from an architectural standpoint, but I'm just trying to check a box, and satisfy an arbitrary rule without breaking the bank.

I'm thinking that if this is available at all, it's unlikely that this is available for free accounts like the ones we use.  My local group wants to move to a terrible service called sync.com solely because they offer storage in Canada

Any thoughts welcome.

[icrew]

Check out https://support.google.com/a/answer/7630496?hl=en, and yes, it does require a paid Workspace account ($6/user/month and up here in the US). Given the potential productivity impacts and frustrations for volunteers who are already being generous with their time, I’d argue it might be very worth that $6/month. 

Hope that helps, at least a little,

Ian

Hope that helps,

Ian

[Jan-Carlos]

Unfortunatly, you can't pinpoint the data storage to canada, only regions are available.

The options are: 

• No preference
• United States
• Europe

[dwayneking]

Hmmmm...that might not be enough, but thank you for the reply.  I'll investigate.

It's kind of ironic because the organization is based in the US, but since we're in Canada, our "charter" says it must be in Canada

[dwayneking]

Thank you - I'm hadn't found the magic search terms to find that article. 🙂

I'll take a look.  Since they're already resigned to paying for an external service to store the data, it shouldn't matter if we pay that to Google or someone else (assuming I can limit data to Canada - see response below)