GitHub has announced that it will introduce data residency capabilities, beginning with EU developers on 29 October 2024.

GitHub is allowing its Enterprise Cloud customers cloud customers to keep their data within an EU from now on. With this, the platform aims to better meet

GitHub will soon allow cloud customers to store their code data in the European Union (EU), part of a growing push in the technology realm to meet regulatory requirements and customer expectations around data protection — particularly where sensitive information might be at play,

Github is among a growing number getting on board with European data sovereignty, with support for EU data residency will roll out on October 29. GitHub to offer EU data residency

The developer platform GitHub, which is owned by Microsoft, announced on Tuesday that it is enabling business customers to restrict the storage of their confidential software code to data centres situated within the European Union.

The upgrade is for the GitHub Enterprise Cloud offering, with data residency being available from October 29 for EU customers, with Australia being next soon after, a GitHub spokesperson told CRN Australia.

GitHub is giving enterprise users the ability to store their sensitive code on only EU servers, hoping to meet the bloc's strict approach to data regulation.

In a significant move toward addressing Europe’s stringent data protection regulations, Microsoft’s GitHub has announced that it will offer enterprise clients the option to store their sensitive software code exclusively within data centers located in the European Union.