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Changing Data Centre from US to EU
Dear Community/Support Team,
I need adivce. My subscription is expiring in a few weeks, and I would like to renew it. However, I need to change my data center from the US to the EU (we are based in the EU, yet for some reason, our account is allocated to the US data center) as I’m experiencing issues sharing files with external partners.
Could you please clarify the process for making this change? I was informed that one option is to let the account expire and start a new one, but I’m concerned about what will happen to my Rise files and other content.
I’d really appreciate your guidance on the best way to proceed.
Thank you in advance for your help.
40 Replies
- BenjaminSchütteCommunity Member
I want to also add my concern of not being able to transfer courses between US and EU servers. It seems like a serious neglect on the Articulate side to not have found a solution for this after such a long time of this being requested. Considering cancelling right away.
- VandaHCommunity Member
I have been in contact with the support team and received written confirmation that cross-data-center collaboration is not even on the roadmap. That pretty much says it all, and it also explains the complete silence from the community mods in this thread.
This is genuinely disappointing. After working with Articulate products for over ten years, I am seriously considering moving on. With AI tools on the rise, the barrier to building your own solutions is getting lower every day and we can create a lot better things than with Rise. It is hard to justify staying with a provider that ignores its community, treats paying customers as a given, and cannot support something as basic as international collaboration.
I hope Articulate reconsiders. But right now it does not feel like they are listening.
- DigirgiAkadeemiCommunity Member
Well, this is important information. About a year ago, I was hoping they would solve it, but I am now approaching my renewal, and it still is not even on the roadmap. I will start actively looking for alternatives and will recommend other platforms to my partners. I do not see the point of rebuilding everything from scratch in an EU account if I could instead migrate to a different solution altogether. Parta.io seems like an interesting option.
- VandaHCommunity Member
The worst at this point is the complete silence from Articulate on this matter. There is clearly a lot of frustration in this community and yet there has not even been a basic acknowledgment of the issue, let alone a roadmap or solution.
We have stopped expecting a meaningful fix anytime soon, honestly. That said, we have just reached out to support directly to see if there is any workaround we might have missed, and we will report back if we hear anything useful.
In the meantime, I would encourage everyone who is affected by this to contact Articulate directly as well. The more people make clear how much this impacts day to day work, especially for those of us working internationally, the harder it becomes to ignore. Numbers matter here.
If this does not get resolved in the long run, we will unfortunately have no choice but to look for another tool. We are not there yet, but we are getting closer.
- KellyCommunity Member
Even when you contact Articulate directly, they ignore you. I feel like they don't care AT ALL. For them it's pretty convenient to have users having to pay twice for the same license just to be able to do their job. 😠
Hi Kelly,
I'm sorry to hear that this has been your experience when contacting Articulate Support!
Checking the case history associated with your Articulate ID, I'm not seeing any requests that went unanswered. If you're comfortable sharing more details on a specific instance, I'm happy to take a closer look. Please let us know!
- Uliana_Nast_26Community Member
Absolutely support comments listed above - this issue is not an inconvenience, but a major problem. I hope Articulate will prioritize developing a solution for it as soon as possible.
- HanneJacobsen-7Community Member
We are currently experiencing an issue after changing a supplier, where we need to move courses from one data center to another. At the moment, we are unable to resolve this, which creates a risk that we may have to recreate the courses.
As customers, we should be able to decide which data center our courses are available in/shared with, rather than having this restriction set by Articulate.
We would appreciate it if this issue could be prioritized.
- JPACommunity Member
Some of our clients have Articulate on EU-servers, some of them are on US-servers. All of them want transfer of ownership of the courses we develop. And what is Articulate's ONLY answer: buy an extra license for the full price! That is not a solution, it is ripping off. Please find a solution ASAP.
- KellyCommunity Member
Right! I have new customers who are just starting with e-learning and are still evaluating authoring tools. This limitation (me being on the US data center, and them who would be on the EU data center) is actively pushing them to consider alternatives. And honestly, that's a logical decision. I may as well buy a (much cheaper) license of the alternative authoring tool my customer would use instead of buying a second (super expensive) full license of the same tool.
- ChristopheDE009Community Member
I find this shameful! And don't tell me it's not possible, it's probably a GDPR issue or something similar.
- KellyCommunity Member
I genuinely can't believe this isn't a top priority for Articulate.
Imagine Microsoft Office users in Europe couldn't share Word documents with users in the US - it would be considered completely unacceptable. Yet, that's exactly what's happening here with Rise courses. How can Articulate even THINK that this is acceptable?????
As others have already said: this isn't just an inconvenience! It directly affects how freelancers and teams collaborate across clients, regions, and projects.
Your customers are paying premium license fees. THEY DESERVE BETTER!!! So Articulate, ADDRESS THIS, instead of developing fancy features that nobody is asking for!
- VandaHCommunity Member
Our company has been a long-term Articulate customer and I want to add my voice to the existing feedback on this topic, because I don't feel it's being taken seriously enough.
The inability to transfer courses between servers is a real and ongoing problem for many of us. Two things in particular stand out:
First, when EU servers were introduced, long-term customers were never given a proper migration path. Moving from the US server to the EU server meant losing all previously created content. That is NOT a minor inconvenience for people who have invested years into building on this platform.
Second, we now can't even collaborate with clients who signed up on a different server. This completely breaks cross-border workflows and makes it very difficult to serve international clients, which should be a core use case for a platform positioning itself as global.
This limitation was never clearly communicated. We found out through experience, not through any proactive transparency from Articulate.
I'm raising this again because I want to make sure the volume of frustration around this is visible. This isn't just one user's edge case. It's a structural problem that affects anyone working internationally, and at this price point, customers deserve better than vague explanations and foreshadowing of "possible" solutions in the future.
A clear answer on whether cross-server transfer is being developed, and if so when, would go a long way. And if it's not on the roadmap, please just say so. We can handle honesty. What's harder to accept is being left to guess.
- TonySundell-be4Community Member
When checking with Articulate's AI customer service bot, it claimed that migration is possible. However I do know not to trust this source, but someone else might get confused of the wrong information.
I also want to express my disappointment with the server change side of things.Hi all!
I hear the frustration being shared here, and I really appreciate you continuing to speak up about your experience.
I also wanted to share a bit more context about why regional data centers exist. They are designed to give organizations more control over where their data is stored and to help meet privacy and regulatory requirements. For example, they ensure EU customer data stays securely within the EU. This approach helps protect course content, learner data, and reports while maintaining consistent security standards across our infrastructure.
And thanks for flagging the AI chatbot response suggesting migration might be possible. That should not create confusion, and I appreciate you calling it out so we can look into it.
- LisaAmbacherCommunity Member
Hi Lauren,
Thank you for the information. I believe most of us understand the broader context. That is why we are struggling now with the whole data security with our customers in EU.
For that reason, it would be greatly appreciated if the Articulate team could treat this as a top priority. The migration from the US servers to EU servers really needs to work reliably and as soon as possible.
If additional signatures, approvals, or other formal steps are required from clients to make this happen, I do not think that would be a problem.
Please keep us informed of any progress on this topic.
Best wishes
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