Practice compliance vocabulary for multi-region deployments: data residency, data sovereignty, tenant requirements, S3 replication restrictions, and regulatory trade-offs.
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'EU data must ___ in eu-west-1.' Which verb expresses a mandatory location constraint?
'Stay' is the most natural verb here: 'EU data must stay in eu-west-1.' 'Remain' and 'reside' are also correct but less common in day-to-day engineering conversation.
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What is a 'data residency requirement'?
Data residency requirements mandate that data be stored within a specific country or region — often driven by GDPR, local data protection laws, or enterprise contract terms.
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'The tenant's data ___ requirement is Germany.' Which noun fits?
'Data residency' is the specific requirement that a tenant's data must be stored in Germany. This is common in B2B SaaS where enterprise customers have contractual requirements.
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What does 'data sovereignty' mean in a multi-region context?
Data sovereignty means that data stored in a country is subject to that country's laws. This creates architectural constraints — e.g., EU data must not be processed by US-based systems under some interpretations.
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'We use S3 replication with destination ___ restriction.' Which noun completes this?
S3 replication can be configured with a 'destination region restriction' to ensure replicated copies only go to approved regions — enforcing data residency at the infrastructure level.