About storage of your data with data residency

Learn how your data is stored when you use GitHub Enterprise Cloud with data residency.

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When you adopt GitHub Enterprise Cloud with data residency, you can choose where your company's code and data are stored. Your enterprise will be hosted on a dedicated subdomain of GHE.com.

Currently, you can store code and data in the EU. In the future, GitHub plans to offer data residency in more regions.

Although your code and user data are stored within your chosen region, GitHub may store certain types of data outside your region, and may need to transfer some data outside your region.

If you are in doubt about any aspect of data residency, contact your account manager in GitHub's Sales team.

Data stored in your region

GitHub stores the following data for your enterprise within your chosen region.

Description of dataExamples
Customer content, including text, data, software, images, and other data available on the service
  • Repositories, including repository name and source code
  • User-generated content or URLs from the service, such as a pull request, comment, file path, raw URL, or filename
  • Structured or blob storage
Data or logs that identify your company
  • Data and logs for GitHub Actions
  • Data for business continuity and disaster recovery (BCDR)
Data or logs that identify a person
  • Email address
  • Username
  • First or last name
  • IP address

Data stored outside your region

For the purposes outlined in our Data Protection Agreement, GitHub may store the following data for your enterprise outside your chosen region.

Description of dataExamples
Telemetry or logs containing consistent identifiers tied to a person, that by themselves do not identify the person without additional information
  • User ID or GUID as integer value in a database
  • Unsalted hash of other data that could identify a person
    • Email address
    • Username
    • First or last name
    • IP address
Information that GitHub needs to administer a paid plan
  • Contact information
  • Billing, purchase, payment, or license information
Support and feedback data
  • Support requests or case notes
  • Phone conversations
  • Online chat sessions
  • Remote assistance sessions
GitHub Copilot dataData and logs for GitHub Copilot

Data transfers

GitHub will document reasons for the transfer of data out of your enterprise's region, but does not notify you when transfers occur.

Additionally, GitHub sends information about the TLS certificate for your enterprise's subdomain on GHE.com to certificate authorities (CAs) and the certificate transparency (CT) ecosystem. Some entities may be outside of your enterprise's region.

Data subject requests

If you need to comply with a data subject request (DSR), contact GitHub Support.

If GitHub receives a request from one of your data subjects pertaining to data residency for GitHub Enterprise Cloud, where GitHub functions as your processor or subprocessor, GitHub will redirect the data subject to you. Consistent with the functionality of the services and GitHub's role, we will cooperate with you and provide you the necessary means to respond.