EC News DeskOracle Cloud Infrastructure will launch a new sovereign cloud region for customers across the European Union. Cloud is not one size fits all. As companies and governments move more mission critical workloads to cloud, there is increasing demand for protection of sensitive data in public clouds that span national borders and jurisdictions. Countries and jurisdictions are placing more requirements on data within their borders, and organizations are asking their global cloud providers for more transparency and control over how and where their data is stored, handled, and secured.
Customers want the benefits of cloud but have requirements for where data is located, the regulations they must meet, and the personnel operating the underlying infrastructure. OCI is an established leader in building cloud regions for customers who require the highest levels of security and have regulated workloads. OCI operates government regions in the UK and North America and have deployed industry’s first OCI Dedicated Region, serving customers that include highly-regulated companies and governments around the globe. To better serve our European customers, Oracle has built on this experience and plans to launch new sovereign cloud regions for the European Union in 2023.
Both private companies and public sector organizations across the EU will be able to use these new OCI sovereign cloud regions to host data and applications that are sensitive, regulated, or of strategic regional importance. As a general policy, OCI already does not move customer content from the regions customers select for their workloads. OCI’s sovereign cloud extends this practice by restricting operations and customer support responsibilities to EU residents. These sovereign cloud regions are also designed to further enable customers to demonstrate alignment with relevant EU regulations and guidance.
Oracle plans to migrate customers using Oracle Fusion Cloud Applications within the existing EU Restricted Access cloud service to the new OCI sovereign cloud regions. These customers will gain the additional operational enhancements of the new sovereign cloud regions and will have full native access to OCI cloud services.
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- Increasing demand for protection of sensitive data in public clouds that span national borders and jurisdictions.
- Oracle plans to migrate customers within the existing EU Restricted Access cloud service to the new OCI sovereign cloud regions.
- Customers will gain additional enhancements of the new sovereign cloud regions and will have full native access to OCI cloud services.
- Oracle has built on experience and plans to launch new sovereign cloud regions for the European Union in 2023.
- New sovereign cloud regions will operate under a set of policies to enhance OCI’s capabilities for data residency, security, privacy, and compliance.
- Additional policies will establish a framework for data and operational sovereignty, including how customer data is stored and accessed, and how government requests for data are handled.
- The first two sovereign cloud regions for the EU will be located in Germany and Spain, with operations and support restricted to EU residents and specific EU legal entities.
- Sovereign cloud regions will be logically and physically separate from the existing public OCI Regions in the EU.
- OCI operates six public OCI Regions located in the EU: Amsterdam, Frankfurt, Paris, Marseille, Milan, and Stockholm.
- New sovereign cloud regions for the EU plan to offer all the 100+ OCI services available in existing public cloud regions, as well as European Union Restricted Access application services.
- Pricing for OCI services will be the same as in existing OCI Regions, and EURA pricing will remain unchanged with same levels of support and financially backed SLAs.
- Customers will be able to use Oracle Universal Credits to purchase service and participate in OCI programs such as Support Rewards.
- New sovereign cloud regions will become part of OCI’s distributed cloud.
- OCI currently operates 39 OCI Regions for commercial and government customers, plus multiple dedicated regions and national security regions.
These new sovereign cloud regions will operate under a comprehensive set of policies and governance that further enhance OCI’s existing capabilities for data residency, security, privacy, and compliance. These additional policies will establish a framework for data and operational sovereignty, including how customer data is stored and accessed, and how government requests for data are handled.
The first two sovereign cloud regions for the EU will be located in Germany and Spain, with operations and support restricted to EU residents and specific EU legal entities. The sovereign cloud regions will be logically and physically separate from the existing public OCI Regions in the EU. Currently OCI operates six public OCI Regions located in the EU: Amsterdam, Frankfurt, Paris, Marseille, Milan, and Stockholm.
The new sovereign cloud regions for the EU plan to offer all the 100+ OCI services available in Oracle’s existing public cloud regions, as well as the European Union Restricted Access application services. Pricing for OCI services will be the same as in existing OCI Regions, and EURA pricing will remain unchanged, with the same levels of support and financially backed SLAs. Customers will be able to use Oracle Universal Credits to purchase service and participate in OCI programs such as Support Rewards.
The new sovereign cloud regions will become part of OCI’s distributed cloud. OCI can address customer requirements by delivering required cloud services to needed locations with flexible performance, security, compliance, and operational models. OCI currently operates 39 OCI Regions for commercial and government customers, plus multiple dedicated regions and national security regions.
