Assembla isolates EU data on Frankfurt AWS instances for compliance
Paul Lynch · 1186 Why Assembla Sold to Venture Equity Firm, Using GDPR to Hit 60% yoy Growth · Oct 23, 2018 · at 21:01
Paul Lynch, CEO of code management platform Assembla, discusses how the company structured European data sovereignty and GDPR compliance infrastructure.
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“So we call it a data center, but it's large instances that we're running in Frankfurt, completely separated from the, from our US data which are targeting specifically into the EU base.”
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