All news with #data residency tag

🚀 Amazon Keyspaces (for Apache Cassandra) is now available in the Asia Pacific (Malaysia) and Asia Pacific (Thailand) Regions, enabling customers to build Cassandra-compatible applications with lower latency and keep data within the Region to meet residency requirements. The managed, serverless service offers virtually unlimited throughput and storage while customers pay only for used resources. These Regions provide the same features as other AWS Regions, including point-in-time recovery, Multi-Region replication, CDC streams, and IPv6 support, reducing operational overhead of running Cassandra clusters.

🔷 Microsoft is expanding Azure capacity across Europe to meet surging cloud and AI demand. Azure regions and sovereign offerings enable organizations to run sensitive workloads with control over data residency, compliance, and performance. The investments cover new regions and upgrades across Northern, Southern, and Central Europe to support multi-region architectures, digital transformation, and sector-specific AI initiatives.

🌍 Amazon has expanded CloudWatch RUM to the AWS European Sovereign Cloud, enabling customers subject to strict data residency and sovereignty rules to collect client-side performance data within the sovereign boundary. The feature captures page load times, JavaScript errors, HTTP failures, and mobile signals to help teams triage issues faster. It is intended for enterprises, public sector organizations, and regulated industries operating in Europe.

🔒 Palo Alto Networks reaffirms its commitment to UK digital autonomy, offering UK-based data hosting, Bring Your Own Key (BYOK) capabilities and contractual protections aligned to UK GDPR. The post cites Unit 42 research on accelerating exfiltration and identity-driven compromises and explains how Systems Data fuels collective defence without sacrificing operational privacy. It stresses local presence, certifications and tailored support for critical national infrastructure.

🔒 Cloudflare expands Regional Services with Custom Regions, enabling customers to define precise geographic boundaries for TLS termination and Layer 7 processing. The update also adds Cloudflare-managed regions for Turkey, the UAE, IRAP (Australia) and ISMAP (Japan). Custom Regions use expressions like country_code to build membership sets, enabling localized AI inference, targeted campaigns, government deployments, and corporate-aligned governance while retaining global L3/L4 DDoS protection.

🌐 BigQuery now supports global queries (preview), letting you run a single standard SQL statement across datasets stored in different geographic regions without building ETL pipelines. BigQuery orchestrates distributed execution by running region-specific operations, transferring partial results to a chosen execution location, and combining them to produce final results. The feature is disabled by default and requires administrator opt-in and explicit per-user permissions. It respects VPC Service Controls and gives you control over where queries execute to help meet compliance and data residency requirements.

🛡️ Apple has added a Limit Precise Location setting in iOS 26.3 and later that restricts the location information mobile carriers receive via cell-tower connections, sharing only an approximate area rather than a precise street address. The toggle applies to specific models — iPhone Air, iPhone 16e, and iPad Pro (M5) Wi‑Fi + Cellular — and requires carrier support; currently supported networks include Telekom (Germany), EE and BT (UK), Boost Mobile (US), and AIS and True (Thailand). Apple says the feature does not affect Location Services or location sharing with friends and family, and it does not change emergency-call location data; users enable it in Settings → Cellular → Cellular Data Options and a restart may be required.

🚀 Google Cloud has launched a new Bangkok (asia-southeast3) region to deliver low-latency, high-performance cloud services while enabling local data residency under Thailand’s PDPA. The region is part of a USD $1 billion investment and is expected to generate THB 1.4 trillion (US$41 billion) in economic value over five years and support roughly 130,000 jobs annually. It offers certified security controls (ISO/IEC, PCI DSS, SOC), default encryption, customer-managed keys, and direct access to Vertex AI, enterprise Gemini, and generative models to accelerate local AI adoption.

📍 The Federal Trade Commission has finalized an order prohibiting General Motors and its OnStar unit from collecting, using, or sharing consumers' precise geolocation and driving-behavior data without express consent. The FTC said GM harvested location data every three seconds through the discontinued Smart Driver feature and sold it to third parties, including consumer reporting agencies, which could affect insurance outcomes. Under the order GM is barred from sharing such data with consumer reporting agencies for five years, must obtain express consent for collection and sharing for 20 years, and must give U.S. customers access, deletion rights, and the ability to disable precise location tracking.

🔒 AWS has expanded service availability for Dedicated Local Zones, enhancing options for compute, storage, backup, and recovery to address strict data residency and digital sovereignty requirements. The announcement adds newer EC2 generation 7 instance types with accelerated computing, EBS gp3 and io1 volumes, and additional Amazon S3 One Zone storage classes. It also introduces EBS Local Snapshots and local AMI support to keep backups and images within customer-specified perimeters, helping regulated and government customers meet compliance needs.

🔒 The AWS European Sovereign Cloud introduces the Sovereign Reference Framework (ESC-SRF), an independently validated set of governance, technical, and operational controls to address strict European sovereignty requirements. The ESC-SRF aligns criteria such as governance independence, data residency, and technical isolation to concrete controls and will be available through AWS Artifact. Customers and partners can use the framework as an assurance model or adapt it to design their own sovereignty controls.

🚀 Google Cloud announced plans to open a new cloud region in Türkiye in partnership with Turkcell, forming part of a 10-year, $2 billion investment in the country. The region will deliver low-latency, high-performance services and advanced AI, data analytics, and cybersecurity capabilities while providing data residency and strong protection controls. Local enterprises, public sector organizations, and partners will gain enhanced scalability, compliance, and the ability to deploy AI-driven solutions closer to end users.

🔒 European leaders, including Chancellor Friedrich Merz and President Emmanuel Macron, will attend a Berlin summit of digital ministers and IT experts expected to draw about 900 participants. The conference highlights concerns that US laws such as CLOUD Act and FISA 702 can compel US cloud providers to disclose data held in Europe, driving calls to reduce dependencies on non‑European vendors. Officials and industry leaders emphasise technological controls — notably strong encryption and customer-held keys — and the need for scalable European cloud alternatives while addressing regulatory and startup barriers.

🤝 Google Cloud is increasing local AI compute in India with its AI Hypercomputer powered by Trillium TPUs, enabling training and serving of advanced Gemini models with data residency and sovereignty controls. New local offerings include batch support for Gemini 2.5 Flash, a preview of Document AI, and real‑time grounding using Google Maps for location‑aware responses. Google is also supporting Indic Arena at IIT Madras with cloud credits to benchmark Indian multilingual models and to help grow the local AI ecosystem.

🔒 Ericsson has implemented a global data governance framework using Dataplex Universal Catalog on Google Cloud to ensure data integrity, discoverability, and compliance across its Managed Services operation. The program standardized a business glossary, automated quality checks with incident-driven alerts, and visualized column-level lineage to support analytics, AI, and automation at scale. It balances defensive compliance with offensive innovation and embeds stewardship through Ericsson’s Data Operating Model.

📘 The AWS re:Invent 2025 attendee guide highlights the conference's digital sovereignty program, detailing sessions, workshops, and code talks focused on data residency, hybrid and edge deployments, and sovereign infrastructure. Key topics include the AWS European Sovereign Cloud, AWS Outposts, Local Zones, and security features such as the Nitro System. Practical workshops and chalk talks demonstrate RAG, agentic AI, and low-latency SLM deployments with operational controls and compliance patterns. Reserve seating via the attendee portal or access sessions with the free virtual pass.

📡 Second-generation AWS Outposts racks are now supported in the AWS Europe (Ireland) Region, allowing customers to order racks connected to that Region. Outposts extend AWS infrastructure, services, APIs, and tools into on-premises data centers and colocation sites for a consistent hybrid experience. This expansion helps organizations optimize latency and address data residency needs while retaining centralized management through their home Region.

⚖️ The European Court of Justice's General Court has dismissed a legal challenge seeking to annul the EU-US Data Privacy Framework (DPF), finding that, at the time of adoption, US law ensured an adequate level of protection for personal data transferred from the EU. Negotiated in July 2023, the DPF now stands as the main mechanism for transatlantic data flows, providing immediate relief to the European Commission and many businesses. Critics including Max Schrems and advocacy group NOYB have signalled likely appeals, meaning the ruling may not be the final word and legal uncertainty could continue.