Mimecast Brings Local Data Residency to Southeast Asia and Hong Kong, With No Trade-off in Protection

Where data is hosted has become its own line of questioning for organizations across the globe, separate from how well a vendor secures it. Risk committees, procurement teams, and boards are increasingly asking exactly where sensitive data lives, and that scrutiny tends to show up earliest in regulated industries like financial services, the public sector, and healthcare. For companies handling email, communications, and compliance data, hosting that sits outside their own borders can raise questions that have nothing to do with the strength of the underlying technology.

Starting today, organizations across Singapore, Hong Kong, Indonesia, Malaysia, Myanmar, the Philippines, and Thailand can have their data stored locally while leveraging the Mimecast platform, hosted on AWS.

Part of a bigger shift

This fits a pattern bigger than any one market. As data sovereignty and residency expectations spread across industries and geographies, “good enough” hosting somewhere convenient is giving way to a harder question: exactly where, and under whose laws. Mimecast has been building toward that answer for years, standing up dedicated regional infrastructure in the UK and Germany and independent deployments in Canada, Australia, and South Africa, each shaped around the residency expectations of that market. Singapore is the newest addition, part of a broader commitment to international growth that Mimecast plans to keep building on.

Customers in the region get the Mimecast platform, bringing together threat protection across email and collaboration, insider risk and data protection, data governance, security behavior management, and AI agent security into one platform that secures humans, data, and AI for customers in the region.

"Customers shouldn't have to pick between where their data lives and how well it's protected. With Singapore, organizations across the region get both: their data stays local, and the full Mimecast platform protects it from day one. That's not something you do by flipping a switch. That same architecture is what lets us do it again, in the next market, just as fast," said Rob Juncker, Chief Product and Technology Officer, Mimecast.

Singapore is also the first region where Mimecast deployed its full platform entirely in the cloud. For customers, that means new capabilities arrive as fast as threats and data environments are evolving, and Mimecast can bring the same model to new markets as residency expectations emerge.

Where local hosting fits with compliance

With Singapore hosting, customers in these markets now have a clear, straightforward answer about where their data lives, without having to weigh that against the strength of the platform behind it. What it doesn't change is the rules themselves: an organization's compliance obligations apply no matter where its service is hosted, and in-region hosting answers a preference, not a regulatory requirement.

In partnership with AWS

Mimecast brought Singapore hosting online in partnership with AWS, meeting the same performance and reliability standards customers expect from Mimecast.
"Data residency has become a critical decision point for enterprises across Southeast Asia. By hosting Mimecast's platform in our Singapore region, we're helping organizations meet that requirement without sacrificing the advanced security and compliance capabilities they need. This deployment demonstrates how AWS infrastructure can be purpose-built to meet regional expectations while maintaining enterprise-grade performance and reliability," said Pravar Gautam, Director, APJ Partner Core at AWS.
The partnership extends beyond infrastructure. Mimecast and AWS are working together to make it easier for customers across the region to buy and deploy the Mimecast platform.

The bottom line

New Mimecast customers in Singapore, Hong Kong, Indonesia, Malaysia, Myanmar, the Philippines, and Thailand can now have their data stored and processed in Singapore, on the same Mimecast platform that secures humans, data, and AI everywhere else. It's a clear answer for organizations that need to know exactly where their data lives, without asking them to settle for less to get it.

To learn more about Singapore hosting reach out to your Mimecast representative or partner.