SharePoint Connector for Confluence Cloud data residency information

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Last updated: Nov 01, 2021 by Thomas Dedek
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This page contains information about data residency for the SharePoint Connector for Confluence Cloud. We will answer a set of questions regarding data storage, configuration storage, and geographical location.

 

Where is data stored for the cloud app?

For the Confluence App, the configuration data needed to render the content is stored in macro properties inside the core Atlassian instance.

If you have installed and will be using the SharePoint solution web-part to embed Confluence pages into SharePoint then we are storing the Page Title, Embed URL, and Page URL inside webpart properties which are only used in the browser session to render the Confluence pages. (No data is stored outside of your SharePoint instance)

 

What security is in place for the storage of data?

Data is stored for the Confluence app in macro parameters and is contained inside the core Atlassian application, thus benefiting from the security of the host application (Confluence in this case).

Data stored in webpart properties in SharePoint (as explained above) is contained inside the customer SharePoint environment.

 

Where does each app store the configuration settings?

No general configuration settings are stored because we use the Microsoft Graph API to get the needed data in the context of the current user that is signed-in.

 

What data (if any) is stored within the core application?

For the Confluence app, the following data is stored as macro parameters (data coming from the MS Graph API or from the migrated macros from Server/Data Center): 

SharePoint Document Macro:

  • SharePoint document URL

  • Document ID

  • Embed Url

  • File Type

  • Display type

SharePoint List Macro:

  • List ID

  • List Type

  • SharePoint Site URL

  • Starting Folder ID

 

For the SharePoint webpart the following data is stored inside webpart properties:

  • Confluence Page Title

  • Confluence Page Embed URL (containing Page ID)

  • Confluence Page URL

 

Is any data stored outside the core Atlassian application?

The following data is stored in SharePoint pages of the customer (as webpart properties if the customer decides to use the SharePoint solution to embed Confluence pages into SharePoint):

  • Confluence Page Title

  • Confluence Page Embed URL (containing page id)

  • Confluence Page URL

  • No data stored in our infrastructure

 

What is the geographical location of the data storage outside the Core Application?

This depends on the location of your SharePoint instance because we are storing data on customers' SharePoint Online environments. We do not store any data on our servers as we provide only a client-side solution.

As for the residency of our app resources, they are hosted in an Azure web container with West Europe as a geographical location. However the web resources are distributed using an Azure CDN in order to provide you the best app performance.