Fastmail offers EU data region
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Many of you have been telling us that where your email is stored matters to you. There are various reasons for this, like local law, keeping your data close to home, or compliance.
You can now make the European Union the primary home for your Fastmail data, on our own secure servers in Amsterdam. Previously, all accounts were stored entirely in the US. Now you have more choice.
Built by us, not rented from someone else
We’ve installed our own servers, co-located in a secure facility in Amsterdam, set up by our own engineers. This new location is built to the same high standards as our existing infrastructure in Philadelphia and St Louis, with our own hardware and our own software — specified right down to the exact model of disks in each machine.
In all our locations, data is stored encrypted at rest inside locked racks, and managed by our in-house team. We don’t rent computing or management services from a big cloud provider and pass on their assurances. That’s how we’ve approached privacy, reliability, and performance for more than 25 years.
For many years, we have kept at least two copies of everybody’s email on separate servers in their primary location, and at least one more in a geographically separate location to ensure data safety.