UK organizations are increasingly required to design systems that account for data residency requirements, ensuring that operational data remains within national boundaries. Many teams already run their applications on AWS infrastructure in the UK, but telemetry data can still be processed outside the region, creating gaps in visibility. Datadog’s upcoming UK availability zone solves this by keeping telemetry data in the same region as the workloads that generate it.
At Datadog Summit London in March 2026, we shared our plans to expand Datadog’s footprint in the United Kingdom. At AWS Summit London, we’re sharing the next step in that work: Datadog is partnering with AWS to support our upcoming UK availability zone. When available later in 2026, the zone will let organizations keep logs, metrics, traces, and security signals stored within the UK without changing how their teams work or reducing access to the full Datadog platform.
In this post, we’ll cover:
Why UK data hosting is now a design requirementHow Datadog’s UK availability zone supports UK data hosting on AWSHow to host your observability data in the UK without changing workflowsHow the UK availability zone supports regulated and modern workloads
