Data residency describes where data is stored. Data sovereignty describes the legal and practical control over that data. You can have EU data residency without solving every sovereignty concern.
Buyer checklist
The difference in plain language
Example: an enterprise app hosted in Europe
A company stores customer records in an EU data center. That can help meet a location requirement. It still needs to examine the provider’s ownership, access arrangements, subprocessors, cross-border transfers, backups, and exit process.
Six questions to ask your platform provider
In which countries are production data and backups held?
Which teams or partners can access that data?
Can data be transferred or accessed from outside the EU?
What contract and data-processing terms apply?
Can we export both the records and the application logic?
What happens to the data when the contract ends?
How Betty Blocks can help
Betty Blocks can be evaluated as part of a governed application setup, including how it connects to existing systems and handles the application’s lifecycle. Hosting, data-processing and transfer arrangements must be checked for the specific plan and deployment.
