Where does this provider put your AI data — and who can compel its disclosure?
| Residency | Region-dependent — unresolved until an endpoint region is pinned (region scheme: gcp) |
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| Sovereignty | United States us |
| Endpoints | aiplatform.googleapis.com, aiplatform.us.rep.googleapis.com, aiplatform.eu.rep.googleapis.com |
| Packages | vertexai (Python), google.cloud.aiplatform (Python), @ai-sdk/google-vertex (npm), com.google.cloud.vertexai (Java), com.google.cloud.aiplatform (Java), Google.Cloud.AIPlatform (.NET) |
| KB note | region is in the host: <region>-aiplatform.googleapis.com (or aiplatform.<us|eu>.rep...); the global endpoint carries no region |
How does this provider treat the data you send it? Advisory statements about documented practices — not legal advice.
| Trains on customer API data by default | No source — Service Specific Terms 'Training Restriction': 'Google won't use your data to train or fine-tune any AI/ML models without your prior permission or instruction' — applies to all managed models on the generative-AI platform, GA and pre-GA (retrieved 2026-08-23) |
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| Retention (API inputs/outputs) | Per-feature retention conditions on the generative-AI platform: prompt logging for abuse monitoring applies unless an exemption is requested; Grounding with Search keeps derived queries up to 3 days and Grounding with Maps stores prompts/outputs 30 days (neither can be disabled); request-response logging and Live-API session resumption are opt-in (24h TTL); published Gemini models cache customer data in-memory for 24 hours, project-isolated, not at rest. Zero data retention is achievable by configuration. source — Zero-data-retention page (last updated 2026-08-21): abuse-monitoring prompt logging with exception path; Grounding with Search (3-day derived queries) and Maps (30-day prompts/outputs) storage cannot be disabled; opt-in request-response logging and Live-API session resumption (24h); in-memory caching of inputs/outputs/derived data, project-level isolation, 24h TTL, 'does not violate zero data retention', disableable at project level (retrieved 2026-08-23) |
| Entry last reviewed | 2026-08-23 |