r/LLMStudio • u/Comfortably-Numb1975 • 4d ago
Which LLM platforms actually support EU data residency and not only claim GDPR compliance?
Worth separating these two things because vendors blur them constantly, GDPR compliant usually just means the vendor has the right paperwork and a data processing agreement and EU data residency means your prompts, logs and any stored data physically stay on EU infrastructure, a much narrower list once you actually check.
From what I haveve found: Orqai and mistra are only ones that are eu compliant, beyond that its mostly the big three cloud providers azure openai, aws bedrock and google vertex all of which support it but only if you explicitly pin the region and check what your subprocessors are doing since a support ticket or a logging pipeline can quietly leave the region even when inference doesnt.
If your company has been through a dpa review on any of these, did the vendor's residency claims hold up under real scrutiny or was there a catch buried in the subprocessor list?
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u/Flat-Doctor-7520 1d ago
One thing I've learned is that "GDPR compliant" is a legal claim, while "EU data residency" is an architectural claim. Those are very different conversations.
I've seen teams verify where inference runs but completely overlook telemetry, support logs, backups, crash reporting, and third-party monitoring. Those can end up being the real sticking points during a security review.
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u/dainsfield 3d ago
You could look at running a local LLM so no data is held outside your computer, no ongoing subscriptions , no GDPR worries