Postman EU Data Residency

The Postman EU Data Residency provides a solution for customers in the European Union (EU) to use Postman in compliance with their internal privacy and residency requirements. If you select the EU Data Residency, your data will be stored in EU data centers. An instance of Postman hosted in eu-central-1 (Frankfurt) is available for new Enterprise customers.

About EU Data Residency

Enterprise customers in the EU often have policies that require sensitive data to be stored in the EU. Postman users may require exceptions to data policies in their organization because the main Postman platform is hosted in the us-east-1 AWS data center in Virginia, US. With the EU Data Residency, organizations have the option of storing all user personally identifiable information (PII) and user-generated data in the EU.

Purchasing a Postman EU Data Residency plan

To purchase a Postman Enterprise EU Data Residency plan, contact the Postman sales team. After you purchase your plan, the Postman team will help set up Postman Enterprise for your organization.

Set Postman region preference

After you have purchased a Postman Enterprise EU Data Residency plan, you can add your new account when you log in from the Postman desktop app. To log in to the EU Data Residency in the Postman desktop app, do the following:

1. In the Help menu, select Region Preference for New Accounts > Use EU Region by Default.

2. Follow the usual sign-in procedure as detailed in Sign in to Postman.

The authentication flow begins in the EU region the next time you add an account. You can then select that account to log in to the EU Data Residency.

You can also select Always Ask for Region Selection if you prefer to choose the region for each new account added. This setting presents you with a region selector every time you add a new account. You can also select Use EU Region by Default to return to the default behavior.

Feature availability

With the Postman EU Data Residency, you can use features of the Postman API platform to build and use APIs, with all data stored in the EU. You can create and send requests, write test scripts, organize them into collections, and automate testing with the Collection Runner. You can simplify each step of the API lifecycle and streamline collaboration with features from the Postman Enterprise plan.

The EU Data Residency plan includes the following features:

• Core API development tools
  • Postman API Client
  • Collections and environments
  • Manual collection runs, scheduled collection runs, and performance tests
  • Monitors, including monitors configured to run from static IPs
  • Private API Monitoring
  • Mock servers
  • Version control
  • Publish documentation
  • Webhook integrations: backup collections and send monitor results
  • Backup collections to GitHub and GitLab
• Design, development, and specification tools
  • Spec Hub
• Automation and CLI
  • The Postman CLI
• Security and compliance
  • Roles and permissions
  • SCIM (System for Cross-domain Identity Management)
  • Audit Logs
  • Secret Scanner
  • Collection Recovery
  • BYOK Encryption (with your KMS key in the eu-central-1 region)
  • Reporting and Insights
• IDE support
  • The Postman VS Code extension
• Private sharing
  • Private API Documentation
  • Internal Workspaces
  • Private API Network
• Enterprise Add‑ons
  • Enterprise‑level add-ons are available in the EU region.
  • Partner Workspaces are available, but partners must be Postman Enterprise customers in the EU region.

The following constraints apply when you’re on an EU Data Residency plan:

• Public sharing and discovery
  • Access to the Postman API Network isn’t available (you can’t view, fork, publish, export any public workspaces or content).
  • Publisher profiles can’t be made public.
• Design, development, and specification tools
  • Flows aren’t available.
  • API Builder isn’t available.
  • Postbot isn’t available.
• Security and compliance
  • BYOK Encryption isn’t available for collection runs.
• Collaboration
  • Live Sessions isn’t available.
• Integrations and extensions
  • Third-party integrations aren’t available.
  • Support for npm packages isn’t available.

Administrative highlights

• The Postman API uses the api.eu.postman.com subdomain and some endpoints aren’t available.
• When you use the Postman API to create a webhook, the webhook URL returned in the response is https://newman-api.eu.getpostman.com/.
• To run a collection with the Postman CLI, generate an API key in the EU region and use the API key to sign in to Postman. The Postman CLI automatically detects and uses the region the API key was generated from. Note that all options are supported in the EU region, except the --integration-id option. Learn more about running collections with the Postman CLI.
• To configure and enable SCIM, use the following URL: https://api.eu.postman.com/scim/v2.
• Before Postman can enable BYOK for your team, you must create your AWS KMS key in the eu-central-1 region in your AWS account.
• The Postman Echo service, used to test REST clients and make sample API calls, is based in the US region.

For more information

For more information on Postman Enterprise, see Postman Enterprise plans.