Data handling & AI governance · Reliability and controls
Which BI tools say where AI requests are processed and stored?
1 of 15 tools do, according to their public docs, and 12 partly.
Yes: Databricks. Partly: Snowflake, Omni, Hex, Sigma, BigQuery, Looker, Tableau, Power BI, Metabase, Alteryx, MotherDuck, Redshift.
The question we asked: Does the product documentation say where AI requests are processed and stored?
yes: the product documentation states the regions where AI requests are processed and where AI data is stored, for all of the product's AI features. A subprocessor or trust page counts if it is part of the product documentation. Regions for some AI features only, or processing without storage, is partly. Terms published only on a separate trust or legal site outside this documentation are not evidence, so their absence here is nothing found, not no.
Databricks
Quoted from Databricks’s docsImportantly, your data is not stored outside of your workspace's Geo regardless of this setting.
Snowflake
Quoted from Snowflake’s docsYour customer data remains stored only in the region where your account is located.
Omni
Quoted from Omni’s docsOmni's AI features send requests to an inference provider. The inference provider and region depend on where your Omni application is hosted.
Hex
Quoted from Hex’s docsAny Subprocessor with a Data Residency listed as "Deployment Region" means the general geographic region of the hosted environment (generally, either the European Union or United States of America as selected by Customer) and no Customer Data leaves the stack’s region (e.g., Customer Data from the multi-tenant European Union stack sent to Datadog stays within the European Union).
Sigma
Quoted from Sigma’s docsSigma uses the global endpoint to access the supported model.
BigQuery
Quoted from BigQuery’s docsFor these features, Gemini processing occurs in the jurisdictional boundaries of the query location, or where the BigQuery dataset is stored.
Looker
Quoted from Looker’s docsAll data-at-rest that is associated with Conversational Analytics resides strictly within the Looker instance and is confined to a single region.
Tableau
Quoted from Tableau’s docsIf a model isn’t available in your Data Cloud region, or if there isn't enough available capacity, then the requests are routed to the US region.
Power BI
Quoted from Power BI’s docsIf your tenant or capacity is outside the United States or EU data boundary, Copilot is disabled by default unless your Fabric tenant admin enables the tenant setting called Data sent to Azure OpenAI can be processed outside your tenant's geographic region, compliance boundary, or national cloud instance in the Fabric admin portal.
Metabase
Quoted from Metabase’s docsThe AWS region for Amazon Bedrock (e.g. us-east-1).
Alteryx
Quoted from Alteryx’s docsOpenAI on Microsoft Azure Cognitive Services is available throughout multiple regions.
MotherDuck
Quoted from MotherDuck’s docsWhere model inference runs depends on your Organization's region:
Redshift
Quoted from Redshift’s docsCross-region inference requests are kept within the AWS Regions that are part of the geography where the data originally resides.
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