Indian enterprises increasingly require clarity on where prompts, embeddings, documents, and logs live — not just where the marketing site is hosted.
Separate storage from processing. Ask which regions store your corpus, which regions run inference, and whether subprocessors can leave India without a contract change.
Access control and audit logs matter as much as geography. Residency without ACL mirroring still leaks sensitive SOPs through the wrong employee’s chat window.
Put residency into the statement of work: regions, retention, encryption, and breach notification. Treat model API choices as part of the same decision.
Digicane supports India-oriented data localization strategies for RAG and agent platforms so compliance and IT can align before build starts.