Vultr launches a Sovereign Cloud
The new offering should support governments, research institutions and enterprises in data sovereignty.
Vultr's new Sovereign Cloud and Private Cloud products offer cloud infrastructure with specific safeguards. For example, customers are guaranteed that critical data, technology, and operations... Read more
Google Cloud offers sovereign cloud for AI in any data center
Google Cloud has announced that it will now bring the AI race to your local data center. Many organizations want to get started with AI, but are constrained to their own data centers through compliance rules and can't use U.S. based hyperscaler infrastructure. With the new offering, they can now al... Read more
Microsoft Cloud for Sovereignty isn’t all it’s cracked up to be
Microsoft has made Cloud for Sovereignty generally available. The new service is promising to allow governments to securely place their data in the cloud. Yet Microsoft personnel can access the data in specific scenarios. It's part of the reason that the authenticity of this "sovereign cloud" seems... Read more
EU law will require aviation and banks to handle cloud services more securely
The EU wants to extend the scope of rules for cyber security certificates to a wider range of sectors. With the expansion, airlines and financial institutions will only be allowed to store data with certified cloud providers. Although the rules do not exactly match the term sovereign cloud, non-Eur... Read more
VMware tells its competitors what a true sovereign cloud is
Many major cloud players have been talking about the sovereign cloud in recent years. Microsoft, AWS and Oracle are the most prominent among them. They all promise to keep enterprise and government data shielded from third parties, while allowing customers to free themselves from the constraints of... Read more
AWS launches standalone sovereign cloud in Europe
Amazon Web Services (AWS) is presenting a new sovereign cloud in Europe. This new sovereign cloud will consist of multiple regions operating independently and decoupled from the existing AWS cloud. Also, management, maintenance and support will be done by European citizens employed by AWS and also ... Read more
Microsoft to deploy ‘data boundary’ for EU users in January
Microsoft announced that cloud customers will be able to limit the tech giant's data processing and storage to the EU from January 2023.
The 'EU data boundary' will be deployed in phases across Microsoft's primary cloud services, including Azure, Microsoft 365, Dynamics 365 and Power BI. Since t... Read more
AWS commits to data sovereignty with Digital Sovereignty Pledge
AWS unveiled the Digital Sovereignty Pledge. The tech giant vows to invest in data sovereignty in an attempt to comply with local laws and regulations.
Data sovereignty is the requirement to process data according to the laws and regulations of the location where the data was collected or gener... Read more
Oracle Alloy turns partners into cloud providers
Oracle's latest OCI platform should ensure that the company's cloud can also be delivered to customers by service providers, integrators and ISVs, among others.
In a hybrid world, not everyone chooses generic public cloud offerings for all workloads. Fragmentation is the norm. Of course, there a... Read more