Data Residency and Processing Reference
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Objective
This reference presents information on the data processing and sub-processing locations for F5 Distributed Cloud Services user data.
Processing and Storage
Refer to the following table for locations of main data storage and processing.
Bot Defense
Includes IBD, SSD, and Aggregator management services.
| Category | Locations | Notes |
|---|---|---|
| Persistent storage locations | United States Canada European Union |
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| Non-persistent processing locations | See SOC Locations and TAM Locations | |
| IBD | EMEA: locations include Frankfurt, Ireland, Bahrain, Stockholm APAC: Singapore, Sydney, Mumbai, Tokyo, Hong Kong, Jakarta United States: North Virginia, Oregon LATAM: North Virginia/Oregon, São Paulo |
In case of IBD, there are four scrubbing center regions. The data is not persistently stored in these locations, and the customer's choice of scrubbing center is independent of the persistent storage location. |
Authentication Intelligence
| Category | Locations | Notes |
|---|---|---|
| Persistent storage locations | United States | |
| Non-persistent processing locations | United States and TAM Locations |
Account Protection
| Category | Locations | Notes |
|---|---|---|
| Persistent storage locations | United States European Union Canada India Australia |
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| Non-persistent processing locations | United States Canada Israel Singapore See SOC Locations and TAM Locations |
Data Intelligence
This is same as SAFE or AP.
Client-Side Defense
| Category | Locations | Notes |
|---|---|---|
| Persistent storage locations | United States | |
| Non-persistent processing locations | United States Israel See SOC Locations and TAM Locations |
Application Traffic Insight
| Category | Locations | Notes |
|---|---|---|
| Persistent storage locations | United States European Union Canada Indonesia Japan Australia |
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| Non-persistent processing locations | United States Israel See SOC Locations and TAM Locations |
Silverline WAF and DDOS
| Category | Locations | Notes |
|---|---|---|
| Persistent storage locations | United States | |
| Non-persistent processing locations | United States, Canada, Mexico, Brazil, United Kingdom, Germany, Poland, Bahrain, India, Singapore, Hong Kong, Japan, Australia |
F5XC DDoS, WAF, API Protection, and CDN
| Category | Locations | Notes |
|---|---|---|
| Persistent storage locations | European Union | |
| Non-persistent processing locations | Atlanta Dallas Washington,DC New York San Jose São Paulo Toronto Seattle Chennai Hong Kong Melbourne Sydney Osaka Tokyo Singapore Amsterdam Frankfurt Lisbon London Madrid Paris Stockholm |
TAM Locations
- United States
- United Kingdom
- United Arab Emirates
- Poland
- Singapore
- Australia
- Japan
- India
SOC Locations
- United States
- Poland
- Mexico
- India
- Singapore
Sub Processors
| Entity Name | Purpose | Applicable Services | Entity Country |
|---|---|---|---|
| Amazon Web Services, Inc. | Repository for file sharing and storing encrypted backups and cloud services hosting platform. | Silverline, Beacon, DNS, DNS Load Balancer, Essential App Protect, Distributed Cloud Bot Defense (Managed Service), Distributed Cloud Bot Defense (Self-Service), Distributed Cloud Mesh, Distributed Cloud App Stack, Volt Share | United States |
| ZenDesk, Inc. | Customer support ticket tracking. | Silverline, Beacon, DNS, DNS Load Balancer, Essential App Protect, Distributed Cloud Mesh, Distributed Cloud App Stack, Distributed Cloud Bot Defense (Managed Service), Distributed Cloud Bot Defense (Self Service), Application Traffic Insight, Distributed Cloud Authentication Intelligence, Distributed Cloud Account Protection | United States |
| Google LLC | Communicates monitoring alerts to customers and a messaging application. | Silverline, Distributed Cloud Mesh, Distributed Cloud App Stack | United States |
| C-Serv Global Ltd | Professional services. | Silverline, Distributed Cloud Mesh, Distributed Cloud App Stack | United Kingdom |
| Okta | Identity as a service and access authentication. | Blackfish, Distributed Cloud Bot Defense (Managed Service), Distributed Cloud Bot Defense (Self Service) | United States |
| Google Cloud | Hosting and storage. | Blackfish, Distributed Cloud Bot Defense (Managed Service), Distributed Cloud Bot Defense (Self Service), Application Traffic Insight, Distributed Cloud Authentication Intelligence, Distributed Cloud Account Protection | United States |
| Stripe, Inc. | Payment processing. | Distributed Cloud Mesh, Distributed Cloud App Stack | United States |
| Databricks, Inc. | Job orchestration for cloud services. | Distributed Cloud Mesh, Distributed Cloud App Stack | United States |
| Microsoft, Inc. | O365 productivity software. | Silverline, Beacon, DNS, DNS Load Balancer, Essential App Protect, Distributed Cloud Bot Defense (Managed Service), Distributed Cloud Mesh, Distributed Cloud App Stack | United States |
| Microsoft, Inc. | Azure hosting | NGINX on Azure | United States |
| GitLab, Inc. | Development operations platform for customer support. | Distributed Cloud Mesh, Distributed Cloud App Stack | United States |
| Zapier, Inc. | Workflow automation for customer support. | Distributed Cloud Mesh, Distributed Cloud App Stack | United States |
| Kentik Technologies, Inc. | DDoS monitoring and logging. | Silverline DDoS Protection Service, Distributed Cloud Mesh, Distributed Cloud App Stack | United States |
| Lilac Cloud, Inc. | Support and operation of CDN service. | Distributed Cloud CDN | United States |
| Accenture, Inc. | Provide personnel to assist with support services. | Distributed Cloud Account Protection | United States, India |
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