+1 more need data residency in order to deploy production level solutions

+1 for this as well. This is increasingly becoming a blocker for us to sign up Canada customers. The recent tensions between US<>Canada, is only accelerating this push from our Canadian customers.

+1 We have requirements to have our databases and applications running in a Canadian region.

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This is very important since many Canadian companies have requirements about their data residing on Canadian servers. See: https://www.canada.ca/en/government/system/digital-government/digital-government-innovations/cloud-services/gc-white-paper-data-sovereignty-public-cloud.html

+1 My database is in Toronto, it would reduce latency to have the server runing in the same region

+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