# Data Residency Across Platform Services

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Trace payloads, metadata, logs, metrics and persistent state to their actual service locations, including the effects of regional moves, failover and log lifecycle changes.

- Certification: Salesforce MuleSoft Platform Architect
- Exam section: Establishing organizational and platform foundations
- Study guide: https://www.certifyforce.com/study-guide/mulesoft-platform-architect

**Official exam objective:**

> Identify data residency of different kinds of data (payload, metrics, and others).

## What the exam expects

- Identify locations separately for payloads, management metadata, telemetry and stored state.
- Explain why moving an application does not necessarily relocate its dependencies.
- Assess residency implications of regional failover and monitoring subscriptions.
- Distinguish cloud Object Store storage from Runtime Fabric Persistence Gateway.

**Residency** identifies where data is stored or processed; **payload** is application business content; **telemetry** describes operation; **metadata** describes managed resources; **persistent state** survives the relevant application execution ([Hosting overview](https://docs.mulesoft.com/hosting-home/), [Monitoring overview](https://docs.mulesoft.com/monitoring/)).

## Key facts

| Fact | Detail | Source |
|---|---|---|
| Control-plane data | Organization, identity and design metadata belong to management. | [Hosting overview](https://docs.mulesoft.com/hosting-home/) |
| Existing Object Store | An application-region move does not relocate its original store. | [Object Store FAQ](https://docs.mulesoft.com/object-store/osv2-faq) |
| Separate instances | Monitoring data is not shared between Platform instances. | [Monitoring overview](https://docs.mulesoft.com/monitoring/) |
| Advanced/Titanium | Log and metric storage follows the control-plane region. | [Monitoring overview](https://docs.mulesoft.com/monitoring/) |
| Subscription change | Preserve required logs before the documented storage-clearing change. | [Monitoring FAQ](https://docs.mulesoft.com/monitoring/am-faq) |
| MQ fallback | Standard-queue failover can place data outside the primary country. | [MQ failover](https://docs.mulesoft.com/mq/mq-failover) |
| Fabric persistence | The configured PostgreSQL database stores persistent values. | [Persistence Gateway](https://docs.mulesoft.com/runtime-fabric/latest/persistence-gateway) |
| Application deletion | Monitoring logs can remain after Runtime Manager deletes the app. | [Monitoring FAQ](https://docs.mulesoft.com/monitoring/am-faq) |
| Searchable deletion | Whole indices can cover more dates than requested. | [Monitoring FAQ](https://docs.mulesoft.com/monitoring/am-faq) |

## Check yourself

- When application deletion leaves required Monitoring logs retained for an Advanced subscriber, what documented route can retrieve them?
- Why might searchable-log deletion on Hyperforce affect dates outside the requested interval?
- When reviewing a proposed sensitive-log deletion, what evidence does MuleSoft provide before execution?

## Sources

- [Anypoint Platform Hosting Overview](https://docs.mulesoft.com/hosting-home/)
- [FAQ: Object Store v2](https://docs.mulesoft.com/object-store/osv2-faq)
- [Anypoint Monitoring Overview](https://docs.mulesoft.com/monitoring/)
- [FAQ: Anypoint Monitoring Logs, Metrics, Alerts, and Limits](https://docs.mulesoft.com/monitoring/am-faq)
- [Configuring Cross-Region Failover for Standard Queues](https://docs.mulesoft.com/mq/mq-failover)
- [Anypoint Runtime Fabric Security Architecture](https://docs.mulesoft.com/runtime-fabric/latest/security-architecture)
- [Configuring Persistence Gateway with Runtime Fabric](https://docs.mulesoft.com/runtime-fabric/latest/persistence-gateway)
- [CloudHub 2.0 Architecture](https://docs.mulesoft.com/cloudhub-2/ch2-architecture)

## About the full unit

The "Core concepts", "Exam traps" and "Worked scenario" sections of this unit, its 7 linked practice questions, and unlimited timed mock exams are included with the MuleSoft Platform Architect pack (USD $19): https://www.certifyforce.com/practice-exams