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Introducing the Europe Region, Now Available in Public Beta

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Re: Introducing the Europe Region, Now Available in Public Beta

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Post by hiddenfeatures »

friism wrote: post #5
hiddenfeatures wrote: post #3

From a legal standpoint: Does this now comply with the EU (German?) data privacy laws? I was told the other day, that using Heroku was a No-No, because you are storing your customer data with a non-EU-compliant company outside the EU. With this, the data resides in the EU. Does this (magically) make my troubles go away? Remarks: I am totally not a lawyer

From the "Safe Harbor Compliance is Coming Soon" section: Heroku is not yet a registered participant in the Safe Harbor program. We’ve laid the groundwork for becoming Safe Harbor certified and expect to have it soon. The Europe region public beta is designed to let you build high-performance apps for European users. It does not currently address data residency or jurisdiction concerns. You should assume that some po…

Oh sh*t. I didn't read the website (only the newsletter). Thanks for posting, though. Should be helpful for others as well!

Re: Introducing the Europe Region, Now Available in Public Beta

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Post by hiddenfeatures »

mikehale wrote: post #6
hiddenfeatures wrote: post #3

From a legal standpoint: Does this now comply with the EU (German?) data privacy laws? I was told the other day, that using Heroku was a No-No, because you are storing your customer data with a non-EU-compliant company outside the EU. With this, the data resides in the EU. Does this (magically) make my troubles go away? Remarks: I am totally not a lawyer

Heroku is not (yet) safe harbor compliant, but we have plans to be so.

How close are you to fulfilling those requirements? I am just asking, because there are quite a few German PaaS providers showing up now. So there seems to be a market. And it is a real problem when you try to do business with healthcare

Re: Introducing the Europe Region, Now Available in Public Beta

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Post by ryandaigle »

nthj wrote: post #14

I may be more excited about Heroku Fork than I am about the EU region. I've copied apps many many times, it's one of those tasks that I always meant to write up into a script and never got around to. Thanks Heroku!

Love to get your feedback on fork - ping me at: rd at heroku as you start using the tool.

Re: Introducing the Europe Region, Now Available in Public Beta

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Post by robotmay »

nthj wrote: post #14

I may be more excited about Heroku Fork than I am about the EU region. I've copied apps many many times, it's one of those tasks that I always meant to write up into a script and never got around to. Thanks Heroku!

Aye this sounds great for setting up staging environments, which until now we've had to do manually.

Re: Introducing the Europe Region, Now Available in Public Beta

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Post by impostervt »

ryandaigle wrote: post #17
impostervt wrote: post #15

Would love the ability to have one instance in US, another in EU, and have heroku auto-route to the best one...

How would you handle db/data sync between the apps?

..I would let you (heroku) do that for me, magically? ;)

Re: Introducing the Europe Region, Now Available in Public Beta

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Post by fdr »

impostervt wrote: post #19
ryandaigle wrote: post #17

Earlier quoted context omitted.

How would you handle db/data sync between the apps?

..I would let you (heroku) do that for me, magically? ;)

Wouldn't that be nice!

I work on Heroku, on the databases, which are rather thorny in that department...

...it's going to take some evolution in how applications are written to make that work not uglifically (and it'll probably be ugly at first and for a while), but it's the dream, and I think it'll come to pass over time and with work from many people.

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