Data residency lets you keep your data physically within a geographical area during different operations on the data. For many organizations, this is a critical aspect of data governance and helps ensure compliance with regulations.
Before you begin
In order to enable data residency settings, you must meet the following prerequisites:
- You must create a new Data Studio Pro subscription.
- You must have the necessary permissions to create a new Pro subscription.
- Grant authorization if prompted: When you sign in to Data Studio for the first time,
you may be prompted with an OAuth consent
dialog requesting access to your Google Account. This authorizes the
datastudio.firstpartyscope to use the Data Studio API. Click Continue (or Allow) to grant consent. This is a one-time setup and does not need to be done again unless you explicitly revoke access.
Set a region for data residency
You can enable data residency for your Data Studio Pro assets in Data Studio Pro only while creating a new subscription. To set up data residency, you can optionally select a single data region from the available regions in the drop-down menu. Multi-region and dual-region locations are not supported.
Your organization might use Organization policies to restrict which locations can be used for data residency. If such a policy is in effect, it limits the regions available for you to choose from in the drop-down menu. If no region is available when setting up Data Studio Pro, or if your preferred region is not available, contact your Google Cloud administrator to adjust the organization policy.
Available regions
Data Studio offers data residency in the following regions:
| Region | Region description | Location |
|---|---|---|
asia-east1 |
Taiwan | Asia Pacific |
europe-west4 |
Netherlands | Europe |
southamerica-west1 |
Santiago | Americas |
us-central1 |
Iowa | Americas |
us-east4 |
Northern Virginia | Americas |
Limitations of data residency
Data residency has the following limitations:
- You can only select one region. Multi-region and dual-region locations are not supported.
- You can enable data residency only when you create a new subscription.
- You cannot change the region after the subscription is created, and cross-regional migration of assets isn't supported.
- You cannot move or copy assets in or out of projects with data residency enabled.
- If you downgrade from Data Studio Pro to the no-cost version of Data Studio, data residency features are disabled, and regionalized assets will be deleted after a 30-day grace period. You can prevent assets from being deleted by upgrading to Data Studio Pro again during the grace period.
Unavailable or modified features
When data residency is enabled, some features are unavailable or have modified functionality:
- Geocoding: Geocoding is not supported for data from location-restricted regional endpoints. This affects Google Maps and Geo chart visualizations with unstructured geographical data—such as country names, addresses, and city names—that require geocoding to find corresponding latitude and longitude to plot on a map.
- Scheduled delivery:
- Delivery to Google Chat and Slack is unavailable.
- For email delivery, PDF reports are not embedded in scheduled emails. Instead, the email will contain a link to a PDF which will be available for 30 days.
- Themes: The Extract theme from image feature is unavailable.
- Alerts: Alerts are unavailable.