Techniques and Architectures for Selective Obfuscation of Personally Identifiable Information (PII) in Environments Capable of Replicating Data

A method implemented within one or more instances of a computing environment, wherein an instance is a self-contained architecture to provide at least one database with corresponding search and file system, the method comprising:

• organizing user information from the one or more instances of the computing environment as zones, wherein a zone is based on one or more characteristics of corresponding user information that are different than the instance to which the user information belongs;
• selectively obfuscating user information prior to transmitting blocks of data including the obfuscated user information from a source zone to a destination zone, wherein the selective obfuscation is based on zone information for the source zone and the destination zone.

A non-transitory computer-readable medium having stored thereon instructions that, when executed, are configurable to cause one or more processors to provide one or more instances of a computing environment, wherein an instance is a self-contained architecture to provide at least one database with corresponding search and file system, the instructions further comprising instructions that, when executed by the one or more processors, cause the one or more processors to:

• organize user information from the one or more instances of the computing environment as zones, wherein a zone is based on one or more characteristics of corresponding user information that are different than the instance to which the user information belongs;
• selectively obfuscate user information prior to transmitting blocks of data including the obfuscated user information from a source zone to a destination zone, wherein the selective obfuscation is based on zone information for the source zone and the destination zone.