Who owns my data with Atlas?
- Topic
- Self-hosting
- Asked by
- Security and legal teams
Your data is yours. When you self-host, all identity data lives in your own PostgreSQL database — Atlas never phones it home. In the managed offering, your data lives in an instance isolated from every other customer.
Either way:
Export any time. Users and configuration can be exported through the API and the Import/Export tools in the dashboard.
Encrypted at rest. Secrets are wrapped with per-instance envelope keys, so they aren't readable even at the database layer.
Deletable. You can delete users and honor data-subject requests through built-in tooling.
For contractual guarantees, a Data Processing Agreement (DPA) is available on Enterprise. See the docs and the DPA.
You do. Your users, sessions and configuration live in your database (self-hosted) or your isolated instance (managed). You can export it at any time, and secrets are encrypted so even at the storage layer they aren't readable.