UAE Data Residency: Supporting Data Sovereignty and Resilience in the Middle East

Ardoq is built to support organizations wherever they operate, with the security, control, and reliability required by modern enterprises. Today, we’re announcing the general availability of UAE Data Residency, enabling organizations to host their Ardoq environment within the United Arab Emirates.

UAE Data Residency removes friction from modernizing your architecture practice by combining local hosting with enterprise-grade security and resilience, without trade-offs.

Why Data Residency Matters

Across the UAE, organizations face clear expectations around how sensitive data is handled, stored, and governed. Whether driven by regulation, internal policy, or industry standards, data residency plays a critical role in helping organizations:

• Maintain compliance with national and sector-specific requirements
• Protect sensitive architecture and system data
• Reduce legal, regulatory, and operational risk
• Support audit, governance, and oversight processes

For architecture teams, the data held in Ardoq often represents a critical source of insight into systems, dependencies, and decision-making. Ensuring that this data remains local is essential.

What UAE Data Residency Means in Ardoq

UAE Data Residency is designed around a simple principle: keep core data local, without introducing operational risk.

When you choose UAE Data Residency, your Ardoq tenant is hosted in the AWS Middle East (UAE) region (me-central-1), which is physically located in the United Arab Emirates. The region includes three Availability Zones, enabling high availability and fault isolation while ensuring that core application data is stored and processed locally.

Because there is currently only one AWS region available in the UAE, Ardoq also maintains secondary encrypted backups with Microsoft Azure, in the Azure UAE North region (uaenorth). This approach helps reduce infrastructure and vendor concentration risk while keeping backup data within the UAE.

What Stays in the UAE

In practice, this means the data that matters most to your architecture work remains in the UAE, including:

• Tenant data loaded into Ardoq
• Configuration and metadata required to operate your environment
• Encrypted database snapshots and attachment backups
• Logs stored in UAE cloud accounts

This approach supports local data governance requirements while allowing teams to work with up-to-date, trusted architecture insights.

Enterprise-Grade Security, Built In

UAE Data Residency follows the same security standards trusted by Ardoq customers globally:

• Encryption at rest using AWS Key Management Service (KMS)
• Encryption in transit using industry-standard TLS
• Strict access controls and audit logging
• Encrypted, access-controlled backups

This gives organizations confidence that their data is protected to enterprise standards, without requiring additional configuration or oversight.

Who This Is For

UAE Data Residency is designed for organizations where local data control is non-negotiable, including:

• Large enterprises with UAE-specific governance requirements
• Financial services and insurance providers
• Energy and infrastructure companies
• Government and public sector organizations

If data residency is a prerequisite for adoption, UAE Data Residency removes a key barrier to using Ardoq at scale.

Generally Available Today

UAE Data Residency is generally available and production-ready. New customers can choose UAE as their hosting location from day one, and existing customers can work with Ardoq teams to migrate their tenant where appropriate.

There are no planned functional differences between UAE-hosted tenants and those hosted in other Ardoq regions.

Get Started

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