Alta Video data residency

Last modified: Wednesday March 05, 2025.

To provide the cloud infrastructure needed to host and run Alta Video, Avigilon Alta uses services from Google Cloud Platform (GCP), Wasabi, and Digital Ocean.

Alta Video data centers

Alta Video deployments are hosted on GCP, with Wasabi providing the cloud video storage used by Alta Cloud Storage. Digital Ocean is used to host the TURN servers used by Smart Path.

For both GCP and Wasabi, Avigilon Alta uses multiple data centers as listed in table 1. The choice of which data center is used is selectable when your deployment is first configured. This gives you control over the residency of your data, and to reduce the distance that your data has to travel as it moves between your cameras, your Cloud Connectors and the Alta Cloud and Alta Cloud Storage.

Table 1 – Data centers used by Alta Video deployments

Avigilon Alta regionSubdomain used for deploymentsGCP regionGCP physical locationDefault Digital Ocean TURN server regionDigital Ocean physical location
AMERICA-NORTHEASTna1.aware.avasecurity.com
na2.aware.avasecurity.com
na3.aware.avasecurity.com
northamerica-northeast1MontrealTOR1Toronto
AUSTRALIA au1.aware.avasecurity.com australia-southeast1Sydney SYD1
SGP1
Sydney
Singapore
EU-LONDONeu2.aware.avasecurity.comeurope-west2LondonLON1 London,
EU-FRANKFURTeu4.aware.avasecurity.comeurope-west3FrankfurtFRA1Frankfurt
EU-WESTeu1.aware.avasecurity.com
eu3.aware.avasecurity.com
europe-west1BelgiumFRA1
AMS3
Frankfurt
Amsterdam
US-CENTRALus1.aware.avasecurity.com
us3.aware.avasecurity.com
us5.aware.avasecurity.com
us-central1IowaNYC1New York
US-WESTus2.aware.avasecurity.com
us4.aware.avasecurity.com
us-west1OregonSFO3San Francisco

TURN server location

Partners can configure the data region of the TURN servers used by a Deployment during setup, or change it later using DMP. By default, Digital Ocean hosts TURN servers. If the default location is changed, GCP hosts them.

No data is stored by the TURN servers, and all data transferred using them is encrypted with keys not known to the TURN servers.

The additional TURN server locations available in GCP are:

  • EU
  • EU West
  • EU London
  • EU Frankfurt
  • US
  • North America
  • US Central
  • US West
  • US East
  • America North-East
  • Australia
  • Australia South-East
  • South America East
  • South Africa
  • Global

For more information on configuring and changing deployment settings in DMP, see Create an Alta Video deployment and Change deployment settings in DMP.

Motorola Cloud Analytics Platform

Some features within Alta Video use analytics services external to your Alta Video deployment.

Face search, Face Watchlists and Image health uses the Motorola Cloud Analytics Platform (MCAP) to analyze the metadata from your cameras. The MCAP services are hosted on AWS systems.

For North American customers using MCAP, you must enable TCP port 443 on *.motorolasolutions.com.
For EU customers using MCAP, you must enable TCP port 443 on *.calipsa.io.

Table 2 – Data centers used by MCAP

RegionAWS regionAWS physical location
USus-east-1North Virginia
EUeu-west-1Ireland