Ardoq has been serving Canadian customers for years. Today, we are excited to announce something new: Canadian data residency is now Generally Available (GA).
For organizations in financial services, government, and crown corporations, this is a major milestone. Data residency is not just an IT preference. It’s often a legal, regulatory, and risk requirement. And until now, many Canadian organizations using cloud software have had to balance transformation goals against concerns about where their data actually lives.
With Ardoq’s Canadian data residency, you no longer have to choose.
For banks, insurers, public agencies, and government-owned enterprises, data residency is about more than geography.
It’s about:
In many organizations, architecture data is not “just IT data.” It reflects how services are delivered, how systems are connected, and where risk sits across the enterprise. That kind of insight deserves the same protection as financial records or personal data.
Canadian data residency gives regulated organizations confidence that their architecture foundation is built on compliant, sovereign infrastructure.
When you choose Canadian data residency with Ardoq, your tenant runs entirely within Canadian AWS infrastructure, meaning that your environment is hosted as follows:
Production data lives in Montreal and is replicated securely to Calgary for resilience. Both regions are located in Canada.
This design ensures that your tenant data, backups, and recovery environment all stay inside Canadian borders.
In short: the information you rely on to plan, govern, and analyze your architecture remains in Canada.
Ardoq’s Canadian deployment includes the same security architecture trusted by customers in highly regulated industries worldwide.
This includes:
Security is not an add-on. It’s built into how the Canadian environment is designed and operated.
Canadian data residency is not just about where data lives. It’s also about ensuring systems remain available when they matter most.
The Canadian deployment uses multiple Availability Zones in both Canadian regions and supports cross-region recovery between Montreal and Calgary.
This gives you:
You get resilience without sacrificing residency.
Where AI features operate directly on tenant data, Ardoq aims to run that processing in the same Canadian regions. We will use LLM models (Anthropic) hosted in the Canadian region.
If any capability depends on services outside Canada, we document it clearly and discuss the implications up front.
Canadian data residency is designed for organizations where data control is non-negotiable, including:
If you operate under Canadian privacy laws, data sovereignty requirements, or sector regulations, this release removes a major barrier to adopting modern Enterprise Architecture at scale.
Canadian data residency is now generally available.
Existing customers can work with their Ardoq team to move into the Canadian region. New customers can choose Canada as their residency location from day one.
This is not a one-off regional launch. It’s part of a long-term commitment to serving Canadian organizations with secure, compliant, enterprise-ready architecture tooling.
As demand grows, we will continue to expand features, availability, and capabilities within our Canadian deployment.
If you’d like to enable Canadian data residency or explore what it means for your organization, contact our team. We’re ready to help you move forward with confidence. Get in touch.