An Australian region isn't the same as an Australian company. Answer three questions and see whether your stack is Australian-owned or foreign-owned, in about ten seconds.
This checker gives general information based on corporate ownership and jurisdiction, it isn't legal advice. For a formal assessment, talk to your legal or compliance team.
Choosing an "Australian region" from a US-owned provider gives you residency, your bytes sit on Australian soil. It does not make the provider an Australian company. The company that owns, runs and supports the platform is still overseas, and it answers to the laws of its home country, such as the US CLOUD Act, rather than to Australian law.
That means Supabase (US Inc.), Firebase (Google), AWS, Azure and the rest are foreign-owned companies, even on their Sydney regions. The clean alternative is a provider with no US or foreign parent in the ownership chain, one Australian company, under Australian law, behind your data. No provider can promise immunity from every legal request, but an Australian-owned provider gives you local ownership, local accountability and local support.
Read the detail: CLOUD Act vs the Privacy Act · Australian-owned data, in plain terms · Ownership FAQ.
WattleDB is a wholly Australian-owned Backend-as-a-Service, managed Postgres, APIs, auth and backups, with no foreign parent in the chain. Owned here, hosted here, supported here.
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