- Deployment
- hosted
- Hq Country
- United States
- Hq City
- Armonk
- Ownership
- public
- Founded
- 1911
- Training Default
- never
- Residency Options
- Frankfurt (eu-de), London (eu-gb), Dallas (us-south), Tokyo (jp-tok)
- Gov Access Exposure
- us-cloud-act
- Eu Ai Act Role
- deployer
- Certs
- ISO 27001, SOC 2 Type II
- DPA available
- yes
- Zero Retention Available
- Yes
- Self Host Option
- Yes
- Retention Default
- watsonx services on IBM Cloud are stateless — IBM states data is processed but not stored by the services, and is not retained once the transaction completes.
- Retention Exceptions
- Prompts, model choices and prompt-engineering parameters are retained only if the customer chooses to save them, in which case they go to a dedicated IBM Cloud Object Storage bucket tied to the project, encrypted at rest and deletable at any time.
- Subprocessors
- IBM group entities (per-offering DPA Exhibits)
- Subprocessor Count
- 1
- Transfer Mechanism
- sccs
- Eu Procurement Ready
- conditional
- Eu Procurement Reason
- Frankfurt is a first-class region, inference is stateless with nothing retained by default, prompts are private to the customer, and IBM states data is not sent to any third-party or open-source platform — an unusually clean model supply chain for a US hyperscaler-tier vendor. Against that: IBM Corp is US-domiciled and CLOUD Act exposed, and the subprocessor list is not one public page but a set of per-offering DPA Exhibits, so it cannot be checked without the contract.
- Training Claim Basis
- stated
- Training Confidence
- high
- Residency Claim Basis
- stated
- Residency Confidence
- high
- Retention Claim Basis
- stated
- Retention Confidence
- high
- Subprocessors Claim Basis
- inferred
- Subprocessors Confidence
- medium
- Residency Class
- eu-selectable
- Portability / Exit Path
- serves-open-models
- Subprocessor Jurisdiction
- non-eu
- Underlying model providers
- IBM (Granite), Meta (Llama), Mistral AI
