Applications Inventory and Attributes - Geographic and Jurisdictional attributes for the Applications Inventory
Applications Inventory and Attributes
Chapter 20. Geographic and Jurisdictional attributes for the Applications Inventory
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Core Concepts
| Concept | Definition & Strategic Role |
|---|---|
| Footprint | Records hosting regions and the geographies the application serves. |
| Data locality | Captures data-residency locations and applicable sovereignty jurisdictions. |
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Question: Why does an application need geographic attributes?
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Geographic and Jurisdictional attributes capture each application’s hosting, serving, and data-locality footprint.
| Attribute Name | Maturity | Description and Notes |
|---|---|---|
Related Hosting Region(s) [Multi-Value] | Walk | Description — The cloud or data-center regions in which this application is hosted. Benefit(s) — Supports latency, resilience, cost, and data-residency analysis, and links the application to governed region entities. Source — Manual. Notes — Typed, multi-value relationship. Examples — US-East (Virginia); EU-West (Ireland); AP-Southeast (Singapore) |
Serving Geographies / User Regions [Multi-Value] | Walk | Description — The geographies where the application's users are located or the markets it serves. Benefit(s) — Clarifies the application's footprint for localization, compliance, and support-coverage decisions. Source — Manual. Examples — North America; EMEA; APAC |
Data Residency Location(s) [Multi-Value] | Walk | Description — The geographic locations or cloud regions where data processed by this application is stored — the physical or virtual locations where the application's primary data stores reside. Benefit(s) — Enables compliance validation against data residency and sovereignty requirements that specify where specific data types may be stored. Cloud migration decisions, disaster recovery configurations, and backup locations must all be evaluated against Data Residency requirements. Source — Manually Entered. Notes — Express as jurisdiction or cloud region: for example, United States — AWS us-east-1, European Union — Azure West Europe, On-Premises — Chicago Data Center. |
Data Sovereignty Jurisdiction(s) [Multi-Value] | Walk | Description — The legal jurisdictions whose data-sovereignty rules apply to the application's data. Benefit(s) — Makes cross-border data obligations explicit for compliance and architecture decisions. Source — Manual. Examples — EU (GDPR); California (CCPA); Germany (BDSG) |
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