Skip to content
Ritesh FirodiyaGet in touch

Work / Chitragupt / Wiki / Decisions

2026-05-30-foundational-region-asia-south1

Decisioncanonicalverified 2026-06-26

DECISION.2026-05-30.FOUNDATIONAL-REGION-ASIA-SOUTH1

Region: asia-south1 (Mumbai)

Note: Date 2026-05-30 is a placeholder — the decision predates the log.

Decision

Firebase, Cloud Functions, Firestore, and Storage are all pinned to asia-south1 (Mumbai). No multi-region.

Why

DPDP Act 2023 requires Indian data residency. Indian filers also need India-local latency.

Impact

  • Region recorded in infra-sub-processors for every Firebase/GCP service.
  • No multi-region failover, no cross-region replication.
  • Any new GCP resource added later must default to asia-south1.

Status

Active.

Sources

  • .context/wiki/decisions/* § "(foundational, undated) — Region: asia-south1 (Mumbai)"

Every project of mine is written down like this.

Read the résumé