All news with #data residency tag

AWS Outposts expand to Canada (Central) and N California

📢 Second-generation AWS Outposts racks are now supported in the AWS Canada (Central) and US West (N. California) Regions. Outposts racks extend AWS infrastructure, services, APIs, and tools to on-premises data centers or colocation spaces, providing a consistent hybrid experience. Customers can order racks connected to these Regions to optimize for latency and data residency, run low-latency workloads locally, and maintain centralized management in their home Region.

Achieve Agentic Productivity with Vertex AI Agent Builder

🛠️ Vertex AI Agent Builder is a unified platform for building, grounding, and deploying production-grade AI agents, designed to move organizations from prototype to scalable, secure services. It centers development on five pillars: Agent frameworks, Model choice, Tools for taking actions, Scalability and performance, and Built-in trust and security, and supports the Agent Development Kit (ADK) and third-party models including Gemini 2.5 Flash Pro. The platform offers managed runtime features such as sandboxed code execution, Agent-to-Agent collaboration, Bidirectional Streaming, and a streamlined one-line path from ADK prototype to Agent Engine deployment, while enterprise controls like VPC-SC and CMEK address compliance and data protection.

OpenAI Open-Weight Models Now in Eight More AWS Regions

🚀 AWS has expanded availability of OpenAI open weight models on Amazon Bedrock to eight additional regions. The update adds US East (N. Virginia), Asia Pacific (Tokyo), Europe (Stockholm), Asia Pacific (Mumbai), Europe (Ireland), South America (São Paulo), Europe (London), and Europe (Milan) to the previously supported US West (Oregon). This broader regional coverage reduces network latency, helps meet data residency preferences, and makes it easier for customers to deploy AI-powered applications closer to their users. Customers can access the models through the Amazon Bedrock console and supporting documentation to get started.

AWS Bedrock Adds OpenAI Open‑Weight Models in Eight Regions

🚀 AWS has expanded availability of OpenAI open weight models on AWS Bedrock to eight additional AWS Regions worldwide. The update brings the models to US East (N. Virginia), Asia Pacific (Tokyo, Mumbai), Europe (Stockholm, Ireland, London, Milan) and South America (São Paulo), alongside existing US West (Oregon) support. This broader footprint aims to lower latency, improve model performance and help customers meet data residency requirements. To get started, use the Amazon Bedrock console or consult the documentation.

AWS OSPAR 2025 Report: 170 Services Covered Under OSPAR v2.0

🔒 AWS has completed its annual OSPAR 2025 audit cycle under the newly enhanced OSPAR v2.0 guidelines, becoming the first global cloud provider in Singapore to receive the report. The certification covers 170 services in the AWS Asia Pacific (Singapore) Region, including seven newly scoped services such as Amazon DynamoDB Accelerator (DAX) and AWS Payment Cryptography. Customers can retrieve the full report through AWS Artifact to support due diligence and compliance.

Google Cloud launches no-cost multicloud data transfer

🔁 Google Cloud has introduced Data Transfer Essentials, a no-cost service for EU and U.K. customers to move multicloud data between Google Cloud and other providers. Designed for in-parallel processing across multiple clouds, qualifying multicloud traffic is metered separately and billed at a zero charge while other traffic remains billed at existing Network Service Tier rates. Customers can opt in via a configuration guide to specify which traffic qualifies.

Shadow AI Discovery: Visibility, Governance, and Risk

🔍 Employees are driving AI adoption from the ground up, often using unsanctioned tools and personal accounts that bypass corporate controls. Harmonic Security found that 45.4% of sensitive AI interactions come from personal email, underscoring a growing Shadow AI Economy. Rather than broad blocking, security and governance teams should prioritize continuous discovery and an AI asset inventory to apply role- and data-sensitive controls that protect sensitive workflows while enabling productivity.

Amazon QuickSight Launches in Israel and UAE Regions

📍 Amazon QuickSight is now available in the Israel (Tel Aviv) and United Arab Emirates (Dubai) AWS Regions, enabling local customers to author, share, and embed interactive analytics at scale. QuickSight is a fast, fully managed BI service that supports browser-based dashboard creation and can be shared with tens of thousands of users without provisioning infrastructure. The launch expands QuickSight to 25 regions globally, improving latency, data residency options, and compliance for regional organizations.

Amazon EBS Adds Snapshot Copy Support for Local Zones

🔁 Amazon Elastic Block Store (EBS) now supports snapshot copy for AWS Local Zones, enabling point-in-time local snapshots to be copied to the parent Region or another Local Zone. The feature is generally available and accessible via the AWS Console, CLI, and SDKs. This capability helps customers meet disaster recovery, data migration, and compliance requirements by storing snapshots in Amazon S3 within the chosen Region or Local Zone.

EuroDaT and Google Cloud: Secure Financial Data Exchange

🔒 EuroDaT, a state-owned data trustee, built safeAML with major German banks to enable controlled, pseudonymous transaction matching while preserving GDPR compliance. The cloud-native service runs on Google Cloud and Google Kubernetes Engine, using infrastructure-as-code, isolated VPCs and auditable processing so EuroDaT never accesses personal-data content. By letting banks request targeted supplementary information, safeAML accelerates suspicious-activity checks, reduces false positives and lays groundwork for wider use in ESG and health data sharing.

EuroDaT and Google Cloud: Secure Financial Data Exchange

🔐 EuroDaT describes how its safeAML platform, built on Google Cloud and Google Kubernetes Engine, enables controlled, pseudonymous exchange of sensitive transaction data between banks. Acting as a neutral data trustee, EuroDaT never accesses personal content while automating secure, auditable workflows that replace error-prone phone calls. Pilots with German banks show faster, more accurate suspicion assessments and lower false positives.

Amazon CloudWatch RUM GA Now in US GovCloud Regions

📣 Amazon has made CloudWatch RUM generally available in AWS GovCloud (US-East) and AWS GovCloud (US-West). The service collects client-side performance and error telemetry in real time and provides curated dashboards showing page load steps, core web vitals, JavaScript and HTTP errors across geolocations, browsers, and devices. It integrates with CloudWatch Application Signals to correlate front-end telemetry with backend metrics, and usage is billed per collected RUM event.

Gemini Available On-Premises with Google Distributed Cloud

🚀 Gemini on Google Distributed Cloud (GDC) is now generally available for customers, bringing Google’s advanced Gemini models on‑premises with GA for air‑gapped deployments and a connected preview. The solution provides managed Gemini endpoints with zero‑touch updates, automatic load balancing and autoscaling, and integrates with Vertex AI and preview agents. It pairs Gemini 2.5 Flash and Pro with NVIDIA Hopper and Blackwell accelerators and includes audit logging, access controls, and support for Confidential Computing (Intel TDX and NVIDIA) to meet strict data residency, sovereignty, and compliance requirements.

Palo Alto Networks Opens Local Cloud Region in South Africa

🌍 Palo Alto Networks has launched a new cloud location in South Africa to bring its AI-powered security platforms closer to local organizations. The region will host core services including Cortex XSIAM, Prisma SASE, Advanced WildFire, Advanced DNS Security, Strata Cloud Manager and Strata Logging Service. Local hosting is designed to reduce latency, meet data residency and sovereignty requirements, and deliver real-time detection, automated response and centralized logging. The investment aims to support South Africa’s digital transformation while addressing rising ransomware and phishing threats across the region.

CLOUD Act Explained: Provider Obligations and Protections

🔒 AWS clarifies five key points about the CLOUD Act, stressing it does not grant automatic or unfettered access to customer content and that U.S. law requires judicial process for compelled disclosures. AWS reports no disclosure of enterprise or government customer content stored outside the U.S. since 2020. The company notes the Act applies to any provider with a U.S. presence and aligns with international law, while technical controls like AWS Nitro and AWS KMS limit operator access.

AWS Completes 2024 CCAG Pooled Audit with EU Banks

🔒 AWS completed the 2024 pooled audit run by the Collaborative Cloud Audit Group (CCAG) with major European financial institutions. The multi‑phase engagement (February–December 2024) was grounded in the CSA Cloud Controls Matrix and aligned to IIA IPPF and ISACA ITAF benchmarks, with on‑site fieldwork at two AWS locations. Assessments covered data confidentiality and sovereignty, incident detection and response, privileged access controls, operational resilience, API security, supplier governance, interoperability and centralized compliance oversight.