+1 regulated user base

+1 Regulated industries require data to be stored in Canada

New Canadian privacy laws are working their way through the government. Quebec has release Law 25, which requires Privacy Impact Assessments for any personal data leaving the province of Quebec. Similar laws are likely to make their way through the federal government soon.

Being able to keep Canadian data residing in a Canadian data center will ease a huge burden for businesses serving Canadian customers, and hopefully this can be prioritized soon!

+1 Adding to the importance of this. To switch our Prod servers to Render and AWS already has infrastructure here

+1, right now we are having to spin up databases + servers using AWS because of this limitation

Yes, for various FOIPA (Freedom Of Information and Privacy ACT) laws, we also need Postgres servers in Canada.

Ditto - a cdn data centre is almost mandatory for s/w proposals to any level of govt (local, prov, federal); and AWS is already here so should not be that big an issue no?

Ya this would be super helpful. I would immediately use Render if this was an option as Heroku doesn't offer this.

This feature would also be useful if you need to serve EU-based clients while still being based in NA due to Canada's adequacy status: https://ec.europa.eu/info/law/law-topic/data-protection/international-dimension-data-protection/adequacy-decisions_en

With the way that privacy laws are changing, this would be a great addition for Canadian customers that have exclusively Canadian clients.