How to Monitor Data Residency in AWS for Contract Compliance | ClauseOps

Q: What AWS services affect data residency?

S3, RDS, DynamoDB, CloudFront, Lambda@Edge, and any service with cross-region replication capabilities. S3 is the most common source of data residency violations.

Q: Can AWS Service Control Policies prevent residency violations?

SCPs can restrict resource creation to specific regions, acting as a guardrail. However, they don't cover all scenarios (like cross-region replication) and should be combined with continuous monitoring.

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How to Monitor Data Residency Requirements in AWS

Data residency is one of the most common and most violated obligations in enterprise contracts. When a customer contract states 'all data must be stored within the European Union,' that's not a suggestion — it's a legally binding requirement that applies to every byte of their data across your…