About Adobe Document Cloud
Comprised of Adobe Acrobat, Acrobat Sign, and Acrobat Services, Adobe Document Cloud leverages Amazon Web Services (AWS) and Microsoft Azure data centers in multiple geographic locations across North America, Europe (EMEA), and Asia-Pacific (APAC).
A customer’s specific data center location(s) and hosting platform(s) depends on the Document Cloud solution(s) and services deployed, as well as the customer’s settings and/or deployment preferences (e.g., when choosing an Acrobat Sign data center during deployment or when enabling PDF Services for Acrobat).
Document Cloud data centers are highly available, resilient, and can withstand system or hardware failures with minimal impact. Each data center runs on a distinct and independent infrastructure, called an Availability Zone or AZ, designed to help ensure business continuity during an outage. If a disruption occurs, traffic is routed to other data centers outside the disrupted AZ. For more information about Document Cloud security, please see the Adobe Trust Center.
The following sections describe the cloud storage and data center locations used for each product in the Adobe Document Cloud solution.
Adobe Acrobat uses Adobe cloud storage, which is hosted on AWS through continuously active data centers in multiple geographic locations, including North America, Europe, and Japan. These data centers are highly available, resilient, and can withstand system or hardware failures with minimal impact. File sharing and collaboration features in Adobe Acrobat PDF Services leverage these data centers. For Acrobat Services (APIs), please see the relevant section below.
More information on data center locations and disaster recovery plans can be found here and in the Adobe Acrobat with Document Cloud Services Security Overview.
Migrations from standalone Adobe Document Cloud storage to Adobe cloud storage began in 2023. Existing customers on Adobe Document Cloud Storage have already been or will be migrated to Adobe cloud storage in the future. This migration, including the benefits of Adobe cloud storage and what’s changing, along with frequently asked questions (FAQs) are detailed here.
Adobe Acrobat Services includes APIs to facilitate end-to-end document workflows, including document generation, intelligence, accessibility, and authenticity. The server-side components of PDF Services API and PDF Embed API are processed in Adobe Document Cloud, which is hosted on the data centers of AWS cloud infrastructure in the US-East and EMEA regions. Enterprise customers can choose the region in which Adobe will process their documents.
Publicly accessible and downloadable components, such as Acrobat Services SDKs and JavaScript libraries, are hosted on providers relevant to the specific component (e.g., library repositories and CDNs).
Acrobat Services APIs leverage Adobe cloud storage and Adobe Document Cloud storage as described above. Customers may choose the region in which their documents are processed. For more information about the security controls in place for in-transit and at-rest documents, please see here.
AI Assistant in Acrobat currently leverages the Azure OpenAI Service, which is hosted on Azure data centers worldwide; further information can be found on the Azure geographies page.
To learn more about Acrobat AI Assistant security and more, please see:
Acrobat Sign is hosted on Amazon Web Services (AWS) and Microsoft Azure servers in continuously active Availability Zone (AZ) data center configurations. All Acrobat Sign data centers are highly resilient, designed to deliver high availability and tolerate system or hardware failures with minimal impact. Each data center runs on its own physically distinct and independent infrastructure to help ensure business continuity in case of an outage. Details on these data centers can be found here.
The Adobe Admin Console is a web-based central location for managing Adobe entitlements across an organization. It is hosted in our US-East (Virginia) data center.
Identity types enable an organization to maintain various levels of control over the users' accounts and data. Your choice of identity model has a considerable impact on how your organization stores and shares assets. While Federated ID and Enterprise ID types are created and managed by the organization, Adobe IDs are created and managed by the individual.
If you need to manage many Admin Consoles, or if you wish to separate departments into their own standalone consoles, you can use a Global Admin Console, which acts as an interface for accessing and managing these standalone consoles.
Adobe Identity Management Services (IMS)
Regardless of the geographic location of the customer, all Adobe identity data is stored in multi-region, load-balanced, cloud infrastructure providers with data centers located in North America, Europe, and APAC. Identity data is replicated across all data centers for reliability reasons. All identity data is secured at-rest using AES-256-bit encryption in compliance with the Adobe Common Controls Framework (CCF) and meets our internal policies for encryption and storage of sensitive data.
