Canadian-owned, Ottawa-based, founded 2017
No US parent, no foreign legal exposure. The operator behind your data is governed by Canadian law, not the CLOUD Act.
CANADIAN DATA RESIDENCY
Canadian Data Residency That Survives a Procurement Review
Most 'Canadian region' offers are sold by US-headquartered companies still bound by US legal process — regardless of which data centre holds the bytes. eazyBackup is a Canadian-owned operator running our own infrastructure inside Canada, so the residency clause in the MSA matches where your data actually sits, where it fails over to, and who has access to it.
100% Canadian operator
Owned Canadian facilities
No cross-border replication
CGP registered
PIPEDA aligned
Canadian-based support
The challenge
A Canadian Region Label Is Not Canadian Sovereignty
Almost any cloud vendor will sell you a 'Canada Central' region. Few will mention that the company behind it is headquartered in the United States — which keeps your data within reach of the US CLOUD Act no matter where it physically sits. Meanwhile, Quebec's Law 25 and tightening provincial privacy frameworks are raising the procurement bar on cross-border flows, not lowering it. The detail usually surfaces under audit: failover regions in Ohio or Virginia, support engineers across multiple time zones holding admin access, and backups, metadata, and logs that were never covered by the residency clause to begin with. By that point, the contract has been signed.
- !US-headquartered operators remain subject to US legal process — including CLOUD Act subpoenas — no matter where the data sits.
- !Quebec Law 25 and provincial privacy frameworks raise the bar on cross-border flows; an old residency clause may not be enough anymore.
- !Support, telemetry, and metadata cross the border routinely, and the residency clause rarely covers any of it.
- !Disaster recovery regions usually sit outside Canada, so the residency clause is broken the moment failover triggers.
- !These gaps almost always surface during a security audit — long after the contract has been signed.
Why generic backup falls short
Why a 'Canada Central' Region Is Not Sovereignty
Sovereignty is about who runs the infrastructure, not where the rack sits. A Canadian-located region operated by a US parent still answers to US courts, and a residency clause that names only the primary region leaves failover, replication, support, and metadata wide open. Real residency requires a Canadian operator under Canadian law, owned facilities inside Canada, and a written commitment that data and operations stay in the country — failover included. Buyers in defence, aerospace, and government tend to hit this wall first. Everyone else hits it on their next audit.
- —Region location does not change operator jurisdiction — a US company in Toronto is still a US company under US law.
- —Hyperscaler failover regions almost always live outside Canada, so disaster recovery breaks the residency clause by design.
- —Global support teams retain logical access to your tenant regardless of which region your data lives in.
- —Standard residency clauses cover production data only — backups, snapshots, metadata, and logs are typically out of scope.
How eazyBackup solves it
How eazyBackup Delivers True Canadian Sovereignty
eazyBackup is a Canadian-owned company, founded in Ottawa in 2017. We own and run our infrastructure ourselves, inside Canadian data centres — no hyperscaler underneath, no failover region across the border. Every product on the platform — Cloud Backup, Microsoft 365 Backup, e3 Object Storage, and Cloud-to-Cloud — runs on the same Canadian backbone with Canadian-based support. The MSA puts the residency commitment in writing for the whole platform, failover and support included — not just the primary region.
Infrastructure owned and operated in Canadian data centres
No hyperscaler dependency, no shared US tenancy. The operator and the facility are both Canadian.
No cross-border replication, failover, or backup region
The residency clause holds in steady state and during disaster recovery — not just on the marketing page.
Canadian-based support team
Logical access to your tenant is restricted to staff working in Canada — no offshore support queue with admin keys.
Cloud Backup, Microsoft 365, e3 Object Storage, and Cloud-to-Cloud on one Canadian backbone
One residency commitment covers your entire data protection stack — not a patchwork of vendor terms.
Canadian-operated Object Lock via e3 Object Storage
Your immutable, ransomware-resistant copies stay inside Canadian jurisdiction — instead of on a US-operated WORM service that pulls them back into the CLOUD Act problem.
Contractual residency commitment available in the MSA
Procurement gets a binding written obligation — not a marketing claim that quietly disappears at the next renewal.
100% Canadian operator
Owned Canadian facilities
No cross-border replication
CGP registered
PIPEDA aligned
Canadian-based support
A real-world scenario
Crown Corporation Discovers Its Backup Failover Lives in Ohio
A Crown corporation runs an internal security review of its incumbent backup vendor. The residency clause looks fine on paper — the contract names a 'Canada Central' region. The review tells a different story: the vendor's automated failover region is in Ohio, support engineers across multiple time zones hold administrative access, and backup metadata is replicated to the US for analytics. The team moves to eazyBackup, consolidating Cloud Backup, Microsoft 365 Backup, and e3 Object Storage onto a single Canadian backbone — operated by a Canadian-owned company with no failover, support, or replication outside the country.
Outcome
The audit closes with no residency findings. The MSA spells out eazyBackup's commitment for the whole platform, one vendor now covers the entire data protection stack, and procurement no longer has to defend a US operator's 'Canadian region' at every renewal.
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