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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.
30 Replies
- 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
- TamariBuliaCommunity Member
Absolutely frustrating. Unbelievable that Articulate still has not offered any solution to their customers about data migration. Is there even any plan or info on whether this will be done at all? At least this can be communicated.
- KathyFiekertCommunity Member
We also have the same issue - We have created extensive eLearning materials which are now useless, as we cannot update them as the license migration to the EU server did not include the migration of our data - what company does that??? At the rates you are charging for subscriptions this is unfathomable. If you are one global company - the least we can expect is access to our products globally.
- rupertmurrellCommunity Member
I also have this same issue we have two licenses one in US with lots of Rise courses authored in it that we would like to move to the EU data centre so we can work colaboratively but dont want to lose all the courses we have authored in the US based license. Our EU licesnse cannot work do any of the Team authoring due to the different data centres we dontwant to move that one to the US as it would also lose the content created in that account plus as a UK based org our DPO wants the data centres in the EU or UK where possible.
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