Sovereign Cloud

from Google

Control, choice, and AI without compromise

Sovereign Cloud

from Google

Control, choice, and AI without compromise

Get complete control without compromising functionality

Sovereignty where you need it

Customer stories from Accenture, Cirrascale, Intesa Sanpaolo, S3NS, and SentinelOne: The power of choice

Our sovereign cloud portfolio empowers governments and regulated enterprises with tailored controls across public cloud regions, partner-operated national clouds, and air-gapped on-premises environments.

Sovereign Cloud options

Work with trusted local partners for transparent operations, independent oversight, external key management, and regional support under local law.

Control your stack

Compose a complete AI architecture across your infrastructure, data, models, and agents—combining frontier Gemini and open-weight Gemma models with built-in encryption and runtime governance.

Our digital future goes beyond technology—it is about supporting a prosperous, secure, and resilient economy for the essential services citizens and businesses rely on every day.

Through our five digital sovereignty commitments, we invest in local infrastructure and skills, assure operational continuity, protect sensitive data, champion open standards without lock-in, and support evolving cybersecurity and regulatory frameworks.

Get complete control without compromising functionality

Sovereignty where you need it

Customer stories from Accenture, Cirrascale, Intesa Sanpaolo, S3NS, and SentinelOne: The power of choice

Our sovereign cloud portfolio empowers governments and regulated enterprises with tailored controls across public cloud regions, partner-operated national clouds, and air-gapped on-premises environments.

Sovereign Cloud options

Work with trusted local partners for transparent operations, independent oversight, external key management, and regional support under local law.

Control your stack

Compose a complete AI architecture across your infrastructure, data, models, and agents—combining frontier Gemini and open-weight Gemma models with built-in encryption and runtime governance.

Our digital future goes beyond technology—it is about supporting a prosperous, secure, and resilient economy for the essential services citizens and businesses rely on every day.

Through our five digital sovereignty commitments, we invest in local infrastructure and skills, assure operational continuity, protect sensitive data, champion open standards without lock-in, and support evolving cybersecurity and regulatory frameworks.

Solutions

A portfolio of choice

Run your workloads on your terms. Choose from a flexible portfolio tailored to your unique risk profile—delivering the ideal balance of local control, robust security, and regulatory compliance.

Google Cloud Data Boundary (public cloud)

Sovereign Cloud options

Enforce software-defined policies to tailor your data residency and access controls across more than 25 regional and regulatory boundaries. Restrict support access by jurisdiction and personnel clearance, hold your encryption keys externally with Cloud External Key Manager (EKM) and Key Access Justifications, and collaborate with regional partners for independent oversight.

Sovereign AI and continuous compliance: Build with Gemini and the Gemini platform using guaranteed in-region machine learning processing, Confidential Computing, and Model Armor—while generating continuous audit evidence in Audit Manager to support mandates such as the EU AI Act, DORA, NIS2, Protected B, and FedRAMP High.

S3NS + Google Cloud

Meet strict operational sovereignty requirements on dedicated, isolated infrastructure operated independently by a trusted local partner under local law—designed to continue operating for up to twelve months if disconnected from Google. In France, S3NS, a Thales company, operates PREMI3NS, which holds France's ANSSI SecNumCloud 3.2 qualification across IaaS, CaaS, and PaaS—and Google Cloud and Thales are expanding this sovereign cloud model to Germany.

AI-ready infrastructure and ecosystem compatibility: Run GPU-accelerated AI, analytics, and core enterprise workloads on Google Cloud architecture under local European operation.

Bring Google Distributed Cloud infrastructure, security, data, and AI directly to your data centers or tactical edge on modular commercial hardware and Kubernetes. Choose connected mode for low-latency local residency, or air-gapped mode—accredited up to U.S. DoD Impact Level 6 (IL6)—for complete physical isolation from the public internet that operates independently and cannot be remotely accessed or shut down by Google.

Disconnected sovereign AI: Run Gemini, open-weight Gemma models, sovereign enterprise search (RAG) with source citations, and pre-trained AI APIs—including Cloud Translation, Speech-to-Text, and Document AI—entirely inside your local or classified perimeter.

Solutions

A portfolio of choice

Run your workloads on your terms. Choose from a flexible portfolio tailored to your unique risk profile—delivering the ideal balance of local control, robust security, and regulatory compliance.

Google Cloud Data Boundary (public cloud)

Sovereign Cloud options

Enforce software-defined policies to tailor your data residency and access controls across more than 25 regional and regulatory boundaries. Restrict support access by jurisdiction and personnel clearance, hold your encryption keys externally with Cloud External Key Manager (EKM) and Key Access Justifications, and collaborate with regional partners for independent oversight.

Sovereign AI and continuous compliance: Build with Gemini and the Gemini platform using guaranteed in-region machine learning processing, Confidential Computing, and Model Armor—while generating continuous audit evidence in Audit Manager to support mandates such as the EU AI Act, DORA, NIS2, Protected B, and FedRAMP High.

S3NS + Google Cloud

Meet strict operational sovereignty requirements on dedicated, isolated infrastructure operated independently by a trusted local partner under local law—designed to continue operating for up to twelve months if disconnected from Google. In France, S3NS, a Thales company, operates PREMI3NS, which holds France's ANSSI SecNumCloud 3.2 qualification across IaaS, CaaS, and PaaS—and Google Cloud and Thales are expanding this sovereign cloud model to Germany.

AI-ready infrastructure and ecosystem compatibility: Run GPU-accelerated AI, analytics, and core enterprise workloads on Google Cloud architecture under local European operation.

Bring Google Distributed Cloud infrastructure, security, data, and AI directly to your data centers or tactical edge on modular commercial hardware and Kubernetes. Choose connected mode for low-latency local residency, or air-gapped mode—accredited up to U.S. DoD Impact Level 6 (IL6)—for complete physical isolation from the public internet that operates independently and cannot be remotely accessed or shut down by Google.

Disconnected sovereign AI: Run Gemini, open-weight Gemma models, sovereign enterprise search (RAG) with source citations, and pre-trained AI APIs—including Cloud Translation, Speech-to-Text, and Document AI—entirely inside your local or classified perimeter.

Control your stack
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Control your stack
Choice of deployment options

Sovereign AI on your terms

Sovereignty now extends beyond where data is stored to how models process information and how AI agents act on your behalf. Build a complete sovereign AI architecture with modular control across infrastructure, data, models, and agents—without sacrificing innovation or risking lock-in.

A composable AI stack you control at every layer

Control your stack

An AI stack is only as sovereign as the layer you cannot control or replace. Google Cloud gives you modular control across every layer of your AI architecture—from who operates the underlying infrastructure and where your encryption keys live, to which models you serve and how your AI agents are governed in production.

Gemma

Adopt the right model for every workload without vendor lock-in. Combine Google frontier Gemini models with our open-weight Gemma models—or deploy leading third-party and regional models such as Mistral through Model Garden. Fine-tune models on your own data within your sovereign boundary to reflect local languages, domain context, and regulatory standards.

Control your stack

Protect sensitive prompts, training data, and model weights at rest, in transit, and in use. Enforce in-region machine learning processing, hold your own keys outside Google infrastructure with Cloud External Key Manager (EKM) and Key Access Justifications, and isolate AI workloads in memory using Confidential Computing on GPUs. Safeguard AI apps and agents at runtime with Model Armor, backed by continuous compliance evidence in Audit Manager.

Choice of deployment options

Built on open standards and Kubernetes, our sovereign portfolio lets your teams build AI workflows once and run them wherever your risk profile demands: in regional public clouds with Google Cloud Data Boundary, in partner-operated national clouds with Google Cloud Dedicated, or completely disconnected from the internet with Google Distributed Cloud.

Sovereign AI on your terms

Sovereignty now extends beyond where data is stored to how models process information and how AI agents act on your behalf. Build a complete sovereign AI architecture with modular control across infrastructure, data, models, and agents—without sacrificing innovation or risking lock-in.

A composable AI stack you control at every layer

Control your stack

An AI stack is only as sovereign as the layer you cannot control or replace. Google Cloud gives you modular control across every layer of your AI architecture—from who operates the underlying infrastructure and where your encryption keys live, to which models you serve and how your AI agents are governed in production.

Gemma

Adopt the right model for every workload without vendor lock-in. Combine Google frontier Gemini models with our open-weight Gemma models—or deploy leading third-party and regional models such as Mistral through Model Garden. Fine-tune models on your own data within your sovereign boundary to reflect local languages, domain context, and regulatory standards.

Control your stack

Protect sensitive prompts, training data, and model weights at rest, in transit, and in use. Enforce in-region machine learning processing, hold your own keys outside Google infrastructure with Cloud External Key Manager (EKM) and Key Access Justifications, and isolate AI workloads in memory using Confidential Computing on GPUs. Safeguard AI apps and agents at runtime with Model Armor, backed by continuous compliance evidence in Audit Manager.

Choice of deployment options

Built on open standards and Kubernetes, our sovereign portfolio lets your teams build AI workflows once and run them wherever your risk profile demands: in regional public clouds with Google Cloud Data Boundary, in partner-operated national clouds with Google Cloud Dedicated, or completely disconnected from the internet with Google Distributed Cloud.

Our digital sovereignty commitments
Our digital sovereignty commitments
Our digital sovereignty commitments
Our digital sovereignty commitments
Our digital sovereignty commitments

Our digital sovereignty commitments

Our commitment is built on five key pillars: investing in local economies through infrastructure and workforce development; enabling digital resilience via rigorous technical and legal controls; empowering customers to control access to their unencrypted data; ensuring an open digital future by supporting open-source software and eliminating lock-in; and actively supporting global cybersecurity and regulatory frameworks.

Investing in local economies, infrastructure, and skills

Our digital sovereignty commitments

True digital sovereignty begins with strong local foundations. We invest directly in regional data center infrastructure, collaborate with local technology providers, and fund comprehensive technical training programs. This approach ensures communities develop domestic engineering talent, creates sustainable jobs, and builds a self-reliant digital economy.

Our digital sovereignty commitments

Public sector systems, healthcare networks, and essential infrastructure require uninterrupted uptime. We provide resilient cloud deployments—including sovereign partner-operated and air-gapped environments—designed to withstand global network disruptions. Your core systems stay operational, secure, and fully aligned with local regulatory requirements.

Google Cloud Dedicated is designed to operate for up to 12 months in the unlikely scenario that its connection to Google is severed.

Google Distributed Cloud air-gapped cannot be remotely accessed or shut down by Google.

Our digital sovereignty commitments

Organizations must retain absolute authority over where their information lives and who can access it. We provide tools to enforce strict data residency, manage your own encryption keys externally, and prevent unauthorized third-party access. We also removed data transfer fees entirely, ensuring you are never trapped by punitive exit costs.

Our digital sovereignty commitments

National security and regulatory compliance should never force you to compromise on innovation. By building on open standards like Kubernetes and flexible architecture, we enable you to run workloads across diverse environments and deploy cutting-edge AI safely. You gain access to industry-leading tools while retaining complete technical independence.

Our digital sovereignty commitments

We collaborate with national cybersecurity agencies, financial regulators, and standards bodies worldwide to help organizations meet rigorous mandates—including ANSSI SecNumCloud 3.2 in France, BSI C5 in Germany, the EU AI Act, DORA, NIS2, Protected B in Canada, IRAP in Australia, ISMAP in Japan, MTCS Tier 3 in Singapore, as well as FedRAMP and DoD Impact Levels in the United States.

Our digital sovereignty commitments

Our commitment is built on five key pillars: investing in local economies through infrastructure and workforce development; enabling digital resilience via rigorous technical and legal controls; empowering customers to control access to their unencrypted data; ensuring an open digital future by supporting open-source software and eliminating lock-in; and actively supporting global cybersecurity and regulatory frameworks.

Investing in local economies, infrastructure, and skills

Our digital sovereignty commitments

True digital sovereignty begins with strong local foundations. We invest directly in regional data center infrastructure, collaborate with local technology providers, and fund comprehensive technical training programs. This approach ensures communities develop domestic engineering talent, creates sustainable jobs, and builds a self-reliant digital economy.

Our digital sovereignty commitments

Public sector systems, healthcare networks, and essential infrastructure require uninterrupted uptime. We provide resilient cloud deployments—including sovereign partner-operated and air-gapped environments—designed to withstand global network disruptions. Your core systems stay operational, secure, and fully aligned with local regulatory requirements.

Google Cloud Dedicated is designed to operate for up to 12 months in the unlikely scenario that its connection to Google is severed.

Google Distributed Cloud air-gapped cannot be remotely accessed or shut down by Google.

Our digital sovereignty commitments

Organizations must retain absolute authority over where their information lives and who can access it. We provide tools to enforce strict data residency, manage your own encryption keys externally, and prevent unauthorized third-party access. We also removed data transfer fees entirely, ensuring you are never trapped by punitive exit costs.

Our digital sovereignty commitments

National security and regulatory compliance should never force you to compromise on innovation. By building on open standards like Kubernetes and flexible architecture, we enable you to run workloads across diverse environments and deploy cutting-edge AI safely. You gain access to industry-leading tools while retaining complete technical independence.

Our digital sovereignty commitments

We collaborate with national cybersecurity agencies, financial regulators, and standards bodies worldwide to help organizations meet rigorous mandates—including ANSSI SecNumCloud 3.2 in France, BSI C5 in Germany, the EU AI Act, DORA, NIS2, Protected B in Canada, IRAP in Australia, ISMAP in Japan, MTCS Tier 3 in Singapore, as well as FedRAMP and DoD Impact Levels in the United States.

Customers globally across jurisdictions are meeting varying sovereignty needs

Regnology enhances regulatory reporting with Google Cloud
Google Cloud met our requirements, with a robust security infrastructure, regular audits and rigorous compliance with international standards such as ISO certification. The support of teams dedicated to understanding local regulations with Google Cloud enabled us to navigate the various regulatory frameworks efficiently and ensure a fully compliant transition for our customers.
Antoine Moreau
CIO, Regnology
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Engineering Deutsche Telekom's sovereign data platform
Deutsche Telekom successfully modernized its massive, 20-year-old data ecosystem by migrating over 40 legacy systems and 200 source systems into a single, cloud-native "One Data Ecosystem" (ODE). Developed in collaboration with Google Cloud and T-Systems, this platform achieves cloud-scale analytics without compromising strict European data privacy regulations (GDPR and Germany's Telecommunications and Telemedia Data Protection Act).
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Google Distributed Cloud at the edge powers U.S. Air Force Mobility Guardian 2025
The U.S. Air Force (USAF) utilized Google Distributed Cloud (GDC) Edge during its Mobility Guardian 2025 exercise. The deployment successfully demonstrated the capability of commercial, ruggedized edge computing to deliver mission-critical, AI-enabled analytics and situational awareness directly to contested, remote, and disconnected operating locations.
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Operating Partners

We partner with independent national operators, telecom leaders, and global systems integrators—operating under local law—to deliver regional oversight, external key custody, and dedicated sovereign cloud operations worldwide.

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Compliance regimes and data boundaries by country

Fulfill local data residency and cross-jurisdictional sovereignty requirements on your terms. Google Cloud offers regional data boundaries on public cloud, partner-operated local clouds, and fully air-gapped infrastructure. Explore over 180 global standards in our Compliance Resource Center.

AI trust and transparency

Accelerate your AI initiatives securely with Google Cloud. We combine advanced safety research with robust data governance and compliance controls. Explore our AI Trust and Transparency Resource Center.

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