Where the Server Sits: A Data-Residency Map for US SaaS Teams Selling Into Asia-Pacific
Most US software companies architect for a domestic region and a European one, then treat Asia-Pacific as an extension of US-East with a content delivery network bolted on. That assumption survives until an Indonesian bank or a Vietnamese regulator asks for a signed statement about where the data physically lives. A practical country-by-country read, and how to sequence architecture so the retrofit never happens.