Zoho founder Sridhar Vembu took to X to dismantle a wave of misinformation swirling around the company’s messaging app Arattai, its data practices, and global operations—reasserting Zoho’s identity as a truly Indian tech company.

“There is a lot of false information we want to correct,” Vembu began, before laying out point-by-point how Zoho and Arattai are built and where user data resides. Advertisement

The most striking revelation: Arattai doesn’t run on AWS, Microsoft Azure, or Google Cloud. Instead, all services operate on Zoho’s own hardware and software stack, built on top of open-source frameworks like Linux and Postgres.

While some public cloud services are used to speed up regional traffic through switching nodes, Vembu clarified that no user data is stored on them.

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