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Rovo MCP Server Regional Support

John Ginn

My company has strict data sovereignty requirements and all data must be stored and processed within Australia.

From what I can see in online documentation, the new(ish) Rovo MCP Server is not pinned to the same region as Jira/Confluence/etc. Is anyone able to confirm that the Rovo MCP Server does not support region restriction?

Thanks!

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Dr Valeri Colon (Connect Centric)

@John Ginn welcome to the community. Short answer: you can’t currently enforce full regional processing for Rovo/MCP.

Data residency (stored data) → can be pinned for Jira/Confluence
Rovo/MCP processing → not region-pinned
LLM processing → may occur outside your region (e.g., US-based providers)

Also, MCP isn’t just a “stateless gateway”—it can handle transient processing, which still falls outside residency guarantees. So if you need strict AU-only processing (including inference), Rovo likely won’t meet that requirement today.

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Ajay _view26_

Hi @John Ginn

Based on the current Atlassian Rovo MCP Server documentation, I don’t see region pinning or customer-selectable data residency controls documented for the MCP server in the same way customers expect for Jira or Confluence data residency.

Rebekka Heilmann (viadee)

Hi @John Ginn

You can only pin Data Residency. Rovo MCP doesn't really save data. It's just a gateway to Atlassian's API. The Apps accessed still reside whereever you pinned them.

Rovo itself can be pinned to a region, but the LLMs used are mostly hosted in the US (OpenAi etc.).

So: Data in Transit/Data processing is not pinned to your Region anyway, only Data Residency.

Dr Valeri Colon (Connect Centric)

@John Ginn welcome to the community. Short answer: you can’t currently enforce full regional processing for Rovo/MCP.

Data residency (stored data) → can be pinned for Jira/Confluence
Rovo/MCP processing → not region-pinned
LLM processing → may occur outside your region (e.g., US-based providers)

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