Cloud Data Sovereignty: Building Systems That Satisfy Residency Requirements in 5 Jurisdictions

Major cloud sovereignty regimes requiring jurisdiction-specific data residency â€” and that number is growing

Data sovereignty requirements are proliferating faster than cloud architectures are being designed to accommodate them. US FedRAMP data residency, EU Gaia-X and EUCS, UK GDPR with NCSC Cloud Security Principles, UAE NESA data localisation requirements, and Australian APPs cloud guidance â€” each creates different residency obligations. The multi-region architecture that satisfies all five without running five independent production stacks is achievable, but only if the design starts with sovereignty as a constraint rather than a retrofit.

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