Edge or (GDPR) compliance? With Magic Containers, you get both

In 2018, the EU dropped one of the biggest bombshells yet. GDPR was going into effect, and everyone scrambled to get their data processing under control. Fast forward a few years, and things haven’t exactly slowed down. Governments are increasingly pushing for more data regulations. Not just in Europe, but across the globe.

At the same time, the world is moving quicker than ever. Application response times are no longer measured in seconds. Users expect millisecond latency.

To deliver exceptional experiences, developers are increasingly pushing their applications to sit right at the network edge. Away from large, centralized data centers, applications now often run just milliseconds away from the end user. This brings unparalleled performance, but at a cost. You lose control.

Running applications in such distributed environments opens up major challenges for compliance and forces developers to make a difficult decision.

Go fast or go compliant?

Edge computing was built to solve speed. It wasn’t built with compliance in mind. Today, most edge platforms simply deploy your applications wherever it makes the most sense for performance.

For many businesses, especially those dealing with sensitive information, this can quickly turn into a compliance nightmare. With data potentially flowing through dozens of countries, things can easily spiral out of control. The worst part is, you might not even be aware.

Even when edge platforms offer some localization, it’s usually not perfect. If every edge server around the world can run the application on demand, and compliance is achieved only by routing users to the right ones, you’re just waiting for issues to happen. Internet routing isn’t perfect. A user in Germany could easily be sent on a trip around the world and land in Australia.

This is forcing companies to choose between delivering exceptional user experiences or staying compliant with data processing regulations.

With Magic Containers, you no longer have to choose

At bunny.net, we’ve long been pushing for a privacy-first world. When building Magic Containers, we didn’t stop at just performance. As an EU-based company, we were well familiar with the challenges of compliance, and we knew we had to solve these. Compliance had to feel just as magical.

Our goal was to help you deliver both exceptional speeds and complete control over where your applications are deployed, so you never have to worry about compliance again.

To provide unmatched performance, we built the Magic Containers AI to automatically provision applications around the world based on traffic patterns. This delivers the most optimal latency at the lowest possible cost. Deployed to 41+ regions globally, this brings your applications wherever your users are. Then, we built in powerful controls over where these deployments can actually happen. Everywhere, anywhere, or in specific regions.

With this, every deployment must precisely follow the deployment settings. When specific regions are enabled, Magic Containers doesn’t just route traffic there; it physically binds your applications to those regions, giving you full confidence in regulatory compliance. We help you make sure your data stays where it needs to stay.

Unlike other platforms, we didn’t let provisioning control you. To keep data where it needs to be, it had to be the other way around. To help businesses simplify compliance, we built two powerful systems that give you full control.

Enabled Regions

To keep the performance magic going, Enabled Regions lets you retain the power of AI provisioning while configuring specific geographic regions where your application is allowed to live. The provisioner then picks between those regions to ensure the best latency at the lowest cost.

This gives you the full benefits of edge computing without any manual intervention, while maintaining full control over where you process your user data.

For example, keeping all of your data processing exclusively within the European Union takes just a few clicks. Simply disable all other regions and Magic Containers will automatically provision your deployments solely in the enabled regions.

Base Regions

For even more control, Base Regions allow you to statically pin your application to specific data centers. This guarantees that your application provisions and behaves exactly as you want it to. It's ideal for companies with very strict compliance requirements.

In some cases, the edge could mean a single country. So if regionally distributed deployments aren't what you’re after, Magic Containers was built to make your life easier as well. You can easily pin your application to run in a single region with just a few clicks.

For example, if you want to keep your application in Brazil, you can configure São Paulo as the only enabled and base region. With this, you ensure your application always runs there and only there.

Magic Containers was built to be as seamless as possible but as powerful as needed. Base Regions allow you to take over and get full control.

Treating your own data with the care it deserves

With bunny.net being based in the EU, we possess an ingrained privacy-first focus. We believe speed and control mean nothing without trust, and trust starts with how we handle your own data.

Beyond just helping you simplify compliance, it was crucial for us to ensure your own data is treated with the same level of care. To support that, all logs, analytics, billing, and other data processed by Magic Containers is stored strictly in Germany. This ensures strict EU sovereignty. Your data is protected by some of the world's most comprehensive privacy laws.

You shouldn't have to choose between doing the right thing and doing the fast thing. We're committed to making sure you don't have to.

Tired of sacrificing performance for compliance?

Magic Containers lets you have both. With our regional deployment controls, you can deliver lightning-fast experiences while maintaining strict compliance with data regulations. You can configure your applications to run at the edge exactly where you need them to, without compromise.

If compliance is holding you back from taking your applications to the next level, Magic Containers is now available to everyone. Hop on and give it a try. We're excited to help build a faster, safer, and friendlier internet together; one that treats your users' data with the care that it deserves.