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Data Residency and Sovereignty

Residency is where data physically sits; sovereignty is whose law reaches it. They are different constraints and a deployment can satisfy one while failing the other. For an AI system the binding question is usually not where the database lives but where the inference call goes, because a prompt containing customer data is a cross-border transfer.

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LESSONS THAT TEACH THIS

The FDE EngagementChoose a deployment you can operate under the actual constraints26 min→The FDE EngagementFollow data copies through access, deletion and recovery30 min→

PRACTICE THIS IN REAL QUESTIONS

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