Data protection

Personal data

Cloud VMS doesn’t operate with personal data. Authentication and user management are completely detached from the Cloud VMS.

Media data

Media data including video, audio, and metadata is stored in an Object Storage. There is no direct access to the Object Storage, all the data should be requested through the API.

Backups

Cloud VMS uses 2 types of data storages:

1. Database for parameters and indexes.

2. Object storage for media data.

The database integrity is based on mirroring and periodic backups. In the case of AWS deployments, we use multi-zone RDS that guarantees having at least 3 copies of the database in different zones and almost zero recovery time in case one copy of the database fails. Periodic backups serve to recover data in case of programmatic or human error.

Object storage can be optionally mirrored in multiple zones, however, this increases the operational cost.