Data residency for Slack

Data residency for Slack allows global teams to choose the region where certain types of data at rest are stored.

Here's what you need to know about data residency:

Note: The data residency feature does not change any aspects of Slack other than the data storage location for certain types of data. Slack will continue to process that data and store all other categories of data in accordance with your written agreement for Slack Services and Slack’s Privacy Policy.

Note: If you're not using data residency, your data will be stored in the US. For more information, see Slack's Data Management Policy


Where data residency for Slack is available

In the table below, see where data residency is available and the corresponding backup regions.

Data residency region Data backup region
Frankfurt, Germany Paris, France
Paris, France Frankfurt, Germany
Tokyo, Japan Osaka, Japan
Mumbai, India Hyderabad, India
Singapore, Singapore  Singapore, Singapore*
Seoul, South Korea Seoul, South Korea*
Sydney, Australia Melbourne, Australia
London, United Kingdom London, United Kingdom*
Montreal, Canada Calgary, Canada

*Slack will replicate data in order to keep the data residency and data backup in the same region.


How data residency for Slack works

Data stored in the data region

The following categories of customer data will be stored at rest in a data center within the Customer’s selected region as of the date data residency is enabled:

  • Messages, canvases, and snippets
  • Files (ex., images, docs, etc.) uploaded to the Slack Service
  • Search index of Customer Data
  • App- or bot-generated messages and files
  • Any data collected by an app deployed to Slack's managed infrastructure, as well as the app's datastores, developer secrets, and logs

Note: Flagged or reported customer data may be stored in the United States to enforce our Acceptable Use Policy.


Data stored outside the data region

The following categories of data may be stored in regions outside of the customer’s data region:

  • Slack member profiles
  • Workspace and channel membership information
  • Data used to measure seat count, usage, and revenue
  • Data used for analytics and to measure quality of service, ex. sanitized logs
  • IDs generated by Slack on behalf of the customer
  • Deal celebration data


Data migration

If a new workspace or Enterprise Grid org is set up in a data residency region, customer data will be stored in the selected region starting the date the workspace or org is created.

For existing customers wishing to enable data residency, all newly generated user data will reside in the selected region. Existing user data will continue to reside in the United States, but the customer can request to migrate existing data to their selected data region by contacting our Sales team.


Slack Connect

If external organizations working together in Slack Connect are in the same data region, all of their customer data will remain in that data region as well. If organizations are located in different data regions, the following will happen:

  • Each organization’s messages will live in their respective data regions.
  • The search index for the Slack Connect channel will live in each organization's region.
  • If an organization is removed from a channel, they'll retain an archived copy if they have permission to post, invite, and more.


Enterprise Key Management

New and existing Enterprise Key Management (EKM) customers can choose to create and store their encryption keys in a specific data region with data residency. 

Ready to get started? Contact our Sales team.

Who can use this feature?
  • Only the Primary Owner can enable data residency for a workspace or org
  • Business+ and Enterprise Grid plans