EU Sovereign Cloud

Why Oracle EU Sovereign Cloud?

We designed a strong set of technical, organizational, and contractual controls to help address the requirement that your content, including personal information, will not leave the selected EU Sovereign Cloud data center region(s) without your authorization or instruction.

Oracle EU Sovereign Cloud features

• 150+ OCI services with the same prices and SLAs

  • More than 150 OCI services
    
    EU Sovereign Cloud offers more than 150 cloud services available in OCI commercial regions so enterprises can run all their workloads the same way they can on OCI. There is no need to accept missing cloud services and fewer cloud capabilities to implement a digital sovereignty strategy.
    
    Oracle Cloud Applications
    
    Customers can leverage a complete sovereign stack for the EU with Oracle EU Sovereign Cloud for Oracle Fusion Applications. Read the EU Sovereign Cloud for Fusion Applications datasheet (PDF)

  • The same low prices as commercial regions
    
    Customers can leverage the power of OCI services in Oracle EU Sovereign Cloud at the same pricing as Oracle commercial cloud regions. In addition, customers can bring over existing agreements, such as Universal Credits and Support Rewards, from Oracle’s other cloud regions.

  • The same financially backed SLAs
    
    Oracle EU Sovereign Cloud offers the same financially backed SLAs as Oracle’s other cloud regions. Mission-critical workloads demand more than just availability from cloud providers. They also require consistent performance and the ability to manage, monitor, and modify resources at any time. Only Oracle offers end-to-end SLAs covering the performance, availability, and manageability of services.
• A physically, logically, and cryptographically separated cloud within the EU

  • Physically separate
    
    The EU Sovereign Cloud realm shares no infrastructure with Oracle’s commercial and government regions and has no network connection to Oracle’s other cloud regions.
    
    Operated separately
    
    This architecture enables Oracle to carry out customer support and cloud operations using only employees of new EU-based legal entities.

  • Control with less operational overhead
    
    With a separated cloud realm, customer sovereign cloud deployments can be faster with lower risks of misconfigurations since data residency and EU containment are intrinsic to the cloud architecture. Many other cloud providers rely on complex customer-controlled policies to enforce data residency within their commercial cloud regions.

  • Hold your own keys
    
    To help customers further secure their data and meet EU data sovereignty requirements, Oracle EU Sovereign Cloud offers access to the new OCI External Key Management and Dedicated Key Management services. Customers’ encryption keys can be created and managed externally to OCI or in a dedicated hardware security module (HSM).
• EU-based operations and support

  • Operated within the EU
    
    Oracle EU Sovereign Cloud data centers are operated by EU-based legal entities created to own the hardware, assets, and data center leases and to support customers using these regions. The EU-based legal entities are established by Oracle to operate EU Sovereign Cloud and have separate governance policies to operate according to EU data privacy and sovereignty requirements.

  • Support and operations within the EU
    
    Customer support and data center operations are handled within the borders of the EU by EU-resident personnel who are employed by EU-incorporated legal entities. Support and operations processes are separate from Oracle’s global cloud operations.

  • EU and global compliance
    
    Oracle Cloud aligns with global compliance programs, such as SOC 1, 2, and 3; ISO 27001, 27017, 27018; PCI; and CSA STAR, and regional and industry regulations and programs, such as GDPR, C5, IT-Grundshutz, AgID, EU CoC, and EBA. In addition, Oracle EU Sovereign Cloud aligns with guidance that limits data transfers (such as the Court of Justice of the EU Schrems II ruling and European Data Protection Board guidelines) and monitoring regulations (such as NIS 2). We will extend these as Oracle EU Sovereign Cloud regions become generally available.