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Data handling

Your cloud, your data.

placemy is a fat-client tool. It runs on your machine, using your credentials, against your cloud account. This page is the precise accounting of what that means.

What the CLI reads

  • Resource inventories from the cloud APIs you point it at (EC2, S3, EBS, RDS, Lambda on AWS; equivalents on Azure and GCS).
  • Cloud-native metrics (CloudWatch, Azure Monitor, GCP Monitoring) for the resources it identifies.
  • Billing metadata where you grant it access — used only to compute the savings figures in the report.

What the CLI writes

  • The report file you asked for, at the path you specified (HTML, JSON, or both).
  • A scan snapshot in the state bucket you registered with placemy bootstrap. The bucket is in your account, in the region you chose.
  • A local licence cache at ~/.placemy/licence.json (mode 0600). No personal data other than your own email.

What leaves your machine

Exactly two network destinations, and nothing else:

  • Your cloud provider APIs — AWS, Azure, GCP. These calls authenticate with your own credentials and return data to your process.
  • POST placemy.cloud/api/licence/validate — at most once per week per machine. The request body is your licence key and nothing else. The response confirms your plan and renewal date.

placemy does not phone home with telemetry, error reports, scan contents, resource identifiers, cost figures, or account IDs. If you sniff your network you will see two destinations and that's it.

What we store server-side

On the placemy.cloud servers we hold the licence record, the account record that owns it, billing metadata from Stripe, and support tickets you open with us. Everything described on the privacy page, and nothing that describes your cloud estate.

If we vanished tomorrow

Your scan reports continue to work — they're files on your disk. Your state bucket continues to work — it's in your account. The only thing that stops working is new licence validation, and the CLI has a 30-day offline grace period specifically so that the tool remains useful if you can't reach us.