There are multiple concerns in data location that you need to consider when you approach your cloud computing services architecture. Some considerations include:

• Do your compliance requirements require your information to stay within a specific country or geographic region?
  • You will need to work with your cloud service provider to ensure that your data center is well defined and that your data stays within agreed data centers per your organization's requirements
• How are security controls applied across locations?
  • Do not take for granted that secure control of the application is ubiquitous across geographic locations. Work with the vendor to understand how data security controls are applied.
  • You need to know how your data moves between locations.
  • Ensure that you fully understand how data moves between cloud processing locations, ensuring that data security controls are preserved during data transmission.