{"id":26720,"date":"2021-12-09T15:09:22","date_gmt":"2021-12-09T15:09:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.intercom.com\/blog\/?p=26720"},"modified":"2022-05-03T14:53:33","modified_gmt":"2022-05-03T13:53:33","slug":"regional-data-hosting","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.intercom.com\/blog\/regional-data-hosting\/","title":{"rendered":"Introducing Intercom&#8217;s Regional Data Hosting program"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Technology makes every company a global company, and our focus on data security means Intercom customers all over the world can experience the full benefit of Intercom \u2013 no matter where they\u2019re geographically located.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p>Ten years ago, we built the initial Intercom infrastructure in AWS\u2019 us-east-1 data center in North Virginia, USA. From there, we\u2019ve helped thousands of businesses to connect and build better, trust-based relationships with their customers.<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Customer trust and data security are critical to everything we do at Intercom, as evidenced by our <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.intercom.com\/blog\/intercom-hipaa-2021\/\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">SOC 2<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">, ISO 27001, and <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.intercom.com\/blog\/intercom-hipaa-2021\/\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">HIPAA<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> certifications. Over the last few years, hosting data locally to a region has become a preference for certain businesses with specific needs, or within certain industry verticals. Many value the option of storing their data locally to their jurisdiction.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"pullquote-style-one\"><p>\u201cWe are committed to making sure the topic of data residency never causes unnecessary friction or concern\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">We are committed to making sure the topic of data residency never causes unnecessary friction or concern for these businesses, and allowing them to concentrate on what\u2019s most important: leveraging Intercom to grow their business and build relationships with their customers.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">As a first step, we built European data hosting \u2013 allowing your most important data to remain entirely in Europe, stored in the AWS-eu-west-1 region. Now, we\u2019re delighted to announce that we offer Australian data hosting as well. The same great Intercom experience hosted closer to your company&#8217;s home. Regional data hosting is just our latest offering to help global businesses support their customers: last year, we updated <a href=\"https:\/\/www.intercom.com\/blog\/automated-answers?on_pageview_event=nav\">Resolution Bot<\/a> to support over 30+ languages.\u00a0\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Our Regional Data Hosting program is by far the biggest infrastructure project we have ever taken on. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.intercom.com\/blog\/intercom-in-europe-infrastructure\/\">We started with European data hosting<\/a>, and while it was a daunting challenge, our vision was clear: we needed to recreate the exact same Intercom experience and feature set to the same high standards of quality, in new hosting locations \u2013 AWS-eu-west-1, and later, AP-Southeast-2 region.<\/span><\/p>\n<h2 id=\"building-intercom-in-europe\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Building Intercom in Europe<\/span><\/h2>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The Intercom platform was not initially designed to support this type of capability, and we knew implementing it would require changes to every layer of the Intercom technology stack. We wanted to ship as quickly as possible while avoiding any impact to the velocity of our product teams as they focused on shipping new features.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Luckily, our Infrastructure Group was well suited to the task. We own the production environment and are responsible for Intercom\u2019s availability, scalability, observability, and efficiency. We are uniquely positioned within our engineering organization to develop deep knowledge and context on the inner workings of the entire platform.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>We also have a wealth of talent in the group; a unique blend of engineers with specialized experience of building across the front and back ends. This means we didn\u2019t have to borrow significant capacity from outside the group, something that could have led to disruption and coordination overhead.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"pullquote-style-one\"><p><strong>\u201c<\/strong>We prioritize building automation that ensures our critical operational systems and services stay effective and reliable\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">In our usual day-to-day work, we prioritize building automation that ensures our critical operational systems and services stay effective and reliable. With these strong foundations in place, we can explore bigger, proactive projects that create more value for our customers.<\/span><\/p>\n<h3><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Think big, start small, learn fast<\/span><\/h3>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Our initial brainstorm meetings produced long lists of unknowns and risks. We realized we wouldn\u2019t learn more until we got started, so we resolved to dive right in and stick to one of our core <a href=\"https:\/\/www.intercom.com\/blog\/intercom-product-principles\/\">R&amp;D principles<\/a>: think big, start small, learn fast.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"pullquote-style-one\">\n<blockquote class=\"pullquote-style-two\"><p>\u201cWe wanted to produce a repeatable playbook that would allow us to quickly spin up more data hosting options in future\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The learning element was crucial. Our approach was to continually document findings and learnings as we made progress. We knew this project wouldn\u2019t be a once-off, and we wanted to produce a repeatable playbook that would allow us to quickly spin up more data hosting options in future.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">We kicked things off with a small handful of our most well-tenured engineers focused on building out the core infrastructure \u2013 the required servers, databases, caches, and queues. This stage was made easier by recent investments in infrastructure automation tooling that allowed us to provision infrastructure in minutes using version-controlled configuration files.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Once the foundations were in place, we switched our attention to our development pipeline, making sure we could automatically deploy to the new region and the old one simultaneously. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.intercom.com\/blog\/shipping-is-your-companys-heartbeat\/\">Shipping is our heartbeat<\/a>, and we soon had a steady pulse. After tweaking configuration files and resolving exception after exception, we soon had a basic version of the main Intercom monolith application deployed on just a single server.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"pullquote-style-one\"><p>\u201cExcited by our quick iterative wins, we rapidly accelerated\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>By now our momentum was strong. Excited by our quick iterative wins, we rapidly accelerated, making our way through the various Intercom features. Before long, we were partnering with our Customer Support org to execute QA on each feature, scaling up the infrastructure, completing our operational readiness tasks, and finalizing our launch plan for the announcement of European data hosting.<\/p>\n<p>We learned a lot along the way, and were able to apply those lessons to the development of our Australian data hosting capability. It took us about 10 months to launch EU data hosting, but because of our experience and experimentation, we were able to build and launch Intercom in Australia in just four months.<\/p>\n<h2 id=\"whats-next\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">What\u2019s next?<\/span><\/h2>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">We expect that almost all of our current European customers will continue to use our existing infrastructure. 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