HIPAA and Remy’s self-serve BAA
Any workspace admin can turn on HIPAA in Data settings and accept Remy’s BAA, which costs $100 a month. Remy then limits your apps to the services below, each covered by its vendor’s BAA with Remy. Services Remy runs itself are covered by your BAA with Remy.
What it means
- Your BAA
- A workspace admin accepts it in settings, and it covers every app in the workspace. It’s $100 a month, and once HIPAA is on, only support can turn it off.
- Covered services
- Everything Remy runs itself is covered by your BAA with Remy. Outside vendors are usable only where a BAA between Remy and the vendor covers them, and that list below is live.
- Everything else
- Services Remy doesn’t have a BAA with are blocked for the whole workspace, unless you connect your own key for that service.
- Logs and sessions
- Payload Logging is off for every app, and Remy and your apps sign people out after at most 30 minutes idle.
- Audit Log
- Records who signed in and what they changed. No one can edit or delete an entry for its first year.
- Your data
- Export the workspace’s data at any time. Deleting the workspace destroys everything in it after 30 days, with an emailed receipt of what was removed.
- Your apps’ code
- HIPAA covers the services Remy calls for your apps, not what your apps’ own code does. Building each app to handle health information correctly is up to you.
- The record
- HIPAA has us keep a business associate agreement for six years after it was last in effect.
How to adopt it
Turn on HIPAA in workspace settings
A workspace admin starts it under Data settings. There’s no form to send and no one to call.
Accept the BAA
Accept Remy’s business associate agreement in the same step. It’s $100 a month, billed from the day you accept.
Remy locks the workspace down
Services without a BAA are blocked unless you use your own key, Payload Logging turns off, and idle sessions end after 30 minutes.
Build
Apps keep working with the covered models, storage and infrastructure listed below.
Covered services
Amazon Web Services
Amazon Bedrock
Runs models served through Amazon Bedrock.
Sends user content
Data sentUser content
RetentionZero retention
TrainingNone
Region
BAACovered
32 models
Amazon S3
Stores uploaded files, assets and app data.
Sends user content, personal info, credentials, app content, diagnostics
Data sentUser content, Personal info, Credentials, App content, Diagnostics
RetentionRetainedRetained until the app is deleted · purged from backups within 60 days
TrainingNone
Region
BAACovered
Amazon SES
Delivers app and platform email.
Sends user content, personal info
Data sentUser content, Personal info
RetentionNot retained
Training
Region
BAACovered
Amazon SQS
Queues background job execution.
Sends user content, personal info
Data sentUser content, Personal info
RetentionNot retained
Training
Region
BAACovered
Amazon Cognito
Manages platform user accounts and sign-in.
Sends personal info, credentials
Data sentPersonal info, Credentials
RetentionRetainedRetained while the account exists
TrainingNone
Region
BAACovered
AWS KMS
Encrypts stored secrets and sensitive data.
Sends credentials
Data sentCredentials
RetentionNot retained
Training
Region
BAACovered
AWS Secrets Manager
Stores platform and workspace credentials.
Sends credentials
Data sentCredentials
RetentionRetainedWorkspace keys stored before the platform database held them, no longer read, held until deleted
TrainingNone
Region
BAACovered
AWS Lambda
Processes media: video, audio, PDF pages and downloads, for media steps and previews.
Sends user content
Data sentUser content
RetentionNot retained
Training
Region
BAACovered
Amazon Data Firehose
Carries audit log events into the write-once audit bucket.
Sends personal info, metadata
Data sentPersonal info, Metadata
RetentionNot retained
Training
Region
BAACovered
Amazon CloudFront
Serves files and assets from the CDN.
Sends user content, personal info, app content
Data sentUser content, Personal info, App content
RetentionNot retained
Training
Region
BAACovered
Amazon Aurora PostgreSQL
Stores workspace, app and account data.
Sends user content, personal info, credentials, app content, diagnostics
Data sentUser content, Personal info, Credentials, App content, Diagnostics
RetentionRetainedRetained until the app is deleted · purged from backups within 60 days
TrainingNone
Region
BAACovered
Amazon ElastiCache for Redis
Caches sessions and coordinates background work.
Sends user content, personal info, credentials
Data sentUser content, Personal info, Credentials
RetentionNot retained
Training
Region
BAACovered
Amazon EKS
Runs the platform's services and app sandboxes.
Sends user content, personal info, credentials, app content, diagnostics
Data sentUser content, Personal info, Credentials, App content, Diagnostics
RetentionNot retained
Training
Region
BAACovered
Anthropic
Runs Anthropic (Claude) model requests selected in apps.
Sends user content
Data sentUser content
Retention30 days
TrainingNone
Region
BAACovered
14 models
Cloudflare
CDN
Serves all app and asset traffic through the CDN edge; purges cached assets.
Sends user content, personal info, app content
Data sentUser content, Personal info, App content
RetentionNot retained
TrainingNone
Region
BAACovered
SaaS custom hostnames
Issues certificates and routes custom domains for apps.
Sends metadata
Data sentMetadata
RetentionRetained
TrainingNone
Region
BAACovered
Browser Run (PDFs, screenshots, prerender snapshots)
Renders pages for PDFs, screenshots, thumbnails and link previews.
Sends user content
Data sentUser content
RetentionNot retained
TrainingNone
Region
BAACovered
Workers AI (Clef)
Evaluates text and images against typed questions with Clef.
Sends user content
Data sentUser content
RetentionNot retained
TrainingNone
RegionLocation not published
BAACovered
2 models
Google
Google AI
Runs Google model requests (Gemini, Vertex, Document AI extraction).
Sends user content
Data sentUser content
RetentionRetainedCached up to 24 hours, then discarded
TrainingNone
Region
BAACovered
29 models
Google BigQuery
Holds a copy of the usage ledger for our own finance reporting.
Sends metadata
Data sentMetadata
RetentionRetainedKept in our warehouse for finance reporting
TrainingNone
Region
BAACovered
Microsoft
Microsoft Foundry
Runs models served through Microsoft Foundry.
Sends user content
Data sentUser content
RetentionRetainedKept only when abuse monitoring flags a request for human review
TrainingNone
Region
BAACovered
61 models
OpenAI
Runs OpenAI (GPT) model requests selected in apps.
Sends user content
Data sentUser content
RetentionZero retention
TrainingNone
Region
BAACovered
35 models
Needs no BAA because it receives no health information: Twilio Verify.
DecodoDecodo proxy
LiveKitLiveKit Cloud (voice sessions + SIP)
LlamaIndexLlamaParse
TelnyxTelnyx (voice numbers, SIP → LiveKit)
TwilioSMS
twitterapi.ioTwitterAPI
xAI / XGrok