Website hosting
Does Vercel store data in Canada?
Hosting for Next.js and other front-ends; Vercel Functions
Yes, if you choose it.
Vercel offers Canadian storage, but you have to choose it, and it may depend on your plan. It is owned by a US company, so the US CLOUD Act can require it to produce data it controls, wherever that data is stored.
Tier 4: US-owned, Canadian regionData can be stored in Canada, and the owner is a US company.
Checked 2026-10-13 against the vendor's own pages.
The facts, claim by claim
- Where data is stored
- Functions can run in Montréal (yul1, generally available); static assets are served from Vercel's global edge network
- Where it is processed
- Montréal if yul1 is chosen; default is Washington DC (iad1)
- Support and backups
- Not stated on the pages read
- Owner
- Vercel Inc. (US) · Parent country: United States
- Servers run by
- Vercel platform on AWS · US company
- Customer-held keys
- Not recorded
- Certifications
- Not recorded (blank means not checked, not none)
- Worth knowing
- Defaults to iad1 (Washington DC). One configuration line moves functions to Montréal; the owner is still a US company.
- Caveats
- Vercel's docs map yul1 to AWS ca-central-1.
What the rules say about this
- US CLOUD Act: The owner is a US company: storing data in Canada does not take it out of reach of US legal process.
- Nova Scotia public bodies: Storage and access must both be in Canada: check support access and backups, not only storage.
- Québec Law 25: Canada is not Québec: storage in Toronto still needs a privacy impact assessment for Québec data.
- OCAP®: Data held by any outside vendor is not in the Nation's possession, whoever owns the vendor.
Summaries only; each rule page links the law or regulator. Not legal advice.
Canadian alternatives to Vercel
Other website hosting listings that are Canadian-owned, not US-owned, or self-hostable.
| Listing | Tier | Stored in Canada? | Owner | Servers run by |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| HostPapa | Tier 2: Canadian-owned, data in Canada | Yes, if you choose it | Canadian | Owner not stated |
| Web Hosting Canada (WHC) | Tier 2: Canadian-owned, data in Canada | Yes | Canadian | Owner not stated |
Sources
All checked 2026-10-13. Claims about storage and ownership rest on the vendor's own pages (or its parent's); supporting links can include regulators and program lists.
- Where the data is stored: https://vercel.com/changelog/introducing-the-montreal-canada-vercel-region-yul1
- Who owns it: https://vercel.com/legal/privacy-notice
- Supporting page: https://vercel.com/docs/regions