Ardoq Launches Data Residency in Saudi Arabia

Vision 2030 has put data governance at the center of how Saudi organizations build and buy technology. Government entities, banks, and energy companies are all working under the same expectation: sensitive data stays in the Kingdom, and the systems handling it prove that daily.

Ardoq now meets that expectation directly. Saudi Arabia Data Residency is now generally available, giving organizations a way to run Ardoq entirely on infrastructure based in Saudi Arabia, without giving up the security or reliability they'd get anywhere else.

Why Data Residency Matters in Saudi Arabia

Data residency isn't a checkbox. For most Saudi organizations, it's the difference between a vendor that can support a regulated deal and one that can't. Local hosting helps teams:

• Stay aligned with national and sector-specific regulation
• Keep sensitive architecture and system data under local control
• Cut the legal, regulatory, and operational risk that comes with cross-border data flows
• Move faster through audit and governance reviews

Ardoq holds a lot of institutional knowledge: how systems connect, where dependencies sit, why past decisions were made. For architecture teams operating under strict residency rules, that knowledge has to stay put.

How Data Residency in Saudi Arabia Works

Choosing Saudi Arabia as your hosting location puts your Ardoq tenant on Oracle Cloud Infrastructure, with production running out of Riyadh and backups held separately in Jeddah. Both cities sit inside the Kingdom, so your primary environment and its backup never leave Saudi soil.

Organizations that want a second layer of resilience can also opt into an encrypted backup stored in Ardoq's EU data center. It's encrypted before it ever leaves Saudi Arabia, so it adds an extra safeguard against regional disruption without changing where your live data actually resides.

What Data Residency in Saudi Arabia Covers

Choosing Saudi Arabia Data Residency keeps the following inside the Kingdom:

• Your tenant data
• The configuration and metadata that keeps your environment running
• Encrypted database snapshots and attachment backups
• Application logs

Your team keeps working with current, trustworthy architecture data, and that data never has to leave the country to get to you.

Maintaining A Consistently High Bar for Security, Wherever We Operate

Saudi Arabia Data Residency doesn't run on a lighter security model. It's built on the same controls Ardoq applies globally:

• Encryption at rest, using cloud-native key management
• TLS encryption in transit
• Access controls and audit logging on every environment
• Encrypted backups, access-controlled end to end

Regional hosting shouldn't mean regional compromises, and here it doesn't.

Built for Regulated Industries

We built this for organizations that don't have the option to treat data residency as optional, including:

• Large enterprises operating under Saudi governance requirements
• Banks, insurers, and other financial services organizations
• Government and public sector bodies
• Energy, utilities, and infrastructure operators

If data residency is a prerequisite for adoption, Saudi Arabia Data Residency removes a key barrier to adopting Ardoq at scale.

Available Now

Saudi Arabia Data Residency is generally available and production-ready. New customers can select Saudi Arabia as their hosting location when they start, and current customers can talk to their Ardoq representative about migrating an existing tenant.

To learn more about Saudi Arabia Data Residency or to discuss your requirements, please contact the Ardoq team.