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Discourse subprocessors

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Discourse is a customizable community platform for online discussions, chat, and knowledge sharing. It serves organizations building support hubs, team workspaces, product feedback forums, and developer communities.

Summarized from its homepage on 4 Nov 2026.

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Subprocessors of Discourse

Discourse declares 6 subprocessors.

From the company's own list.Read the source
SubprocessorPurposeLocationFirst seen
Amazonfor enterprise forums hosted on AWS: provides cloud servers and services for hosting and backup; distributes content, like images and website files, so that users can download them quickly from servers close to where they areUSA, Ireland, Germany, South Korea, Singapore, Australia, Global4 Nov 2026
Applefor users of the DiscourseHub iOS app: sends push notificationsUSA4 Nov 2026
Automatticfor forums using our anti-spam plugin: identifies spam forum postsUSA, Global4 Nov 2026
Equinixfor forums hosted in our Seattle, Toronto, and Dublin data centers: colocates servers hosting forumsUSA, Canada, Ireland4 Nov 2026
Googlefor users of the DiscourseHub Android app: sends push notificationsUSA4 Nov 2026
KeyCDNhosts impersonal generic avatars (e.g. the letter "A" on a red background) and common emoji, so that users can download them quickly from servers close to where they areGlobal4 Nov 2026

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