Artie makes streaming high volumes of operational data into warehouses and lakes look easy. We’re built to increase the reliability of your data infra, without the engineering overhead most pipelines come with. In this post, we’re explaining how Artie supports multi-region deployments. It lets you choose exactly where each individual pipeline runs – ideal for teams managing hybrid environments, data residency requirements, or global infrastructure.
What Even Is a Data Plane?
At Artie, a data plane is where the pipeline actually runs. It’s the compute environment – either hosted by Artie (on Artie Cloud) or provisioned inside your infrastructure (hybrid or BYOC model).
Each pipeline – say, a Postgres source to Snowflake destination – runs as a process inside a data plane, like Artie’s AWS US-East-1 data plane.
Assigning Connectors to the Right Data Plane
You shouldn’t have to choose between compliance and cost. But if your pipelines all run in one region (and your workloads are global), you’re probably overpaying – or taking risks. Artie’s multi-data plane support fixes that. You decide where each pipeline runs. EU data stay in the EU. US data stay in the US.
You can assign a pipeline to a specific data plane at creation time. For example:
Or configure in terraform:
resource "artie_pipeline" "orders_to_snowflake" {
name = "Orders to Snowflake"
data_plane_name = "aws-use1"
...
}
This gives you flexibility to decide where each pipeline runs:
- Minimize (or eliminate) egress costs by keeping pipelines close to their source and destination
- Satisfy data residency laws by confining sensitive pipelines to specific regions (like EU-only for GDPR)
- Isolate environments by deploying dev, staging, and prod into separate networks or clouds
What This Looks Like in the Wild
One of our customers is a global fintech that operates in a highly regulated environment. They have 5 cloud regions globally:
- US East
- Canada West
- Frankfurt
- Singapore
- Melbourne
With multi-plane support, they are deploying Artie’s pipelines using our hybrid deployment model in the appropriate AWS region. This is for compliance reasons – especially GDPR in Europe – and to minimize networking costs.
What Happens If You Want to Switch Regions?
Changing a pipeline data plane after deployment may require a re-sync. Please reach out to our team to guide you through this process.
Need to meet data residency requirements – or just want to cut egress costs? Talk to us.
