Impossible Cloud expands in Europe with two new regions, empowering customers to meet data sovereignty and data residency laws while reducing latency.
In today’s global digital landscape, data sovereignty has emerged as a critical issue. In a nutshell, data sovereignty refers to the principle that data must be stored, managed, and processed in compliance with the legal and regulatory standards of the country in which it originates. This is essential for ensuring the rights of individuals and organizations to control their data, reducing the risk of unauthorized access, data breaches, and misuse by foreign entities.
By prioritizing data sovereignty, EU-based companies not only meet data residency laws and regional data regulations but also strengthen their reputations, demonstrating to customers and partners that data protection is a core part of their operations. The implications of data sovereignty in the EU can be summarized as follows:
• GDPR Compliance: Requires that all personal data collected and stored within the EU must adhere to strict privacy protocols, for example, ensuring GDPR-compliant cloud storage for EU-based businesses.
• Data Storage Regulations: Data centers must be located within the EU or other approved locations to meet data residency laws and compliance standards.
• Mitigation of External Access Risks: US-based cloud providers, for example, are still subject to the CLOUD Act, potentially allowing US authorities access to data, which conflicts with EU data protection laws and data residency regulations.
Data sovereignty has become a critical concern for European businesses as they navigate increasingly stringent regulations. Ensuring that data remains within regional borders is essential for compliance, safeguarding privacy, and avoiding hefty legal penalties. As legal debates over international data transfers continue to escalate, planning a long-term, surprise-free cloud strategy has become increasingly challenging. Companies are prioritizing solutions that guarantee compliance by keeping data securely stored within Europe, thus eliminating concerns over unexpected access and jurisdictional conflicts.
Equally important is achieving low latency, especially in industries that rely on real-time data access, such as finance, healthcare, and e-commerce. Low latency ensures that applications run smoothly, transactions are processed instantly, and users experience minimal delays. A multi-region data storage setup provides European businesses with both the speed and compliance necessary for optimal operational efficiency, ensuring that data is accessible quickly while remaining securely within the region.
Impossible Cloud expands its European footprint with two new regions in Benelux (eu-west-1) and Northeast Europe (eu-east-1), strengthening its commitment to data sovereignty and local residency compliance. This feature enhances cloud storage for legal compliance by enabling regional data storage options that respect regional data regulations and meet the growing demand for data residency solutions.
Impossible Cloud’s Multi-Region Feature supports data sovereignty by enabling clients to store and manage their data in geographically diverse, GDPR-compliant EU data centers, ensuring secure, compliant, and cost-effective storage solutions for European organizations.
According to Impossible Cloud Founder and CEO, Kai Wawrzinek, the addition of two new regions enables Impossible Cloud to better support customers navigating a changing storage landscape, where there has been a tightening of local data residency laws, increasingly requiring data to be stored "in-country." He added that storing data “closer to home” also provides customers with reduced network latency, enhancing performance.
Users can now choose from three regions - eu-west-1, eu-east-1, and eu-central-2—each listing the countries hosting its data centers (i.e., eu-west-1: Belgium, Netherlands, Luxembourg; eu-east-1: North-East Europe; eu-central-2: Germany).
Impossible Cloud has added two new regions and reinforced its commitment to utilizing the multi-region feature to meet the growing market demand for flexible, compliant data storage. This enhancement allows end-users to store data across different countries, ensuring compliance with local regulations. The feature also supports international expansion by enabling companies to easily add regions as their global presence grows, offering a scalable, future-proof solution for data storage.
In a nutshell, Impossible Cloud’s new multi-region offers a range of benefits to the end-users:
• Optimized data storage for compliance with data residency laws
• Optimized data storage for lower latency
• Optimized data storage for improved resilience
To better understand how Impossible Cloud reduces latency, we first need to dive into the concept of edge computing. Basically, edge computing brings data processing and data storage closer to where it's actually needed, minimizing how far data has to travel. Instead of relying on a few centralized data centers, edge computing handles tasks closer to the user, which results in faster response times. This is critical for applications like real-time analytics, edge AI or video surveillance where every millisecond counts.
When combined with cloud technologies and cloud computing - especially decentralized ones like Impossible Cloud - edge computing gets even more effective. Unlike traditional cloud computing, which relies on centralized data centers, edge computing handles tasks closer to the user, significantly optimizing network latency.
Impossible Cloud uses a distributed network of data storage hubs spread across various regions, which ensures that data can be accessed quickly, no matter where users are located. This setup not only cuts down latency but also improves data availability and reliability. Impossible Cloud’s decentralized network of edge computing platforms ensures that data can be accessed rapidly, reducing data latency and enabling low latency applications.
By leveraging multiple edge locations, Impossible Cloud addresses data residency and compliance concerns while still delivering low-latency and high-performance cloud storage.
Impossible Cloud’s commitment to expanding its regional data storage network extends beyond recent openings. Founder and CEO Kai Wawrzinek highlighted that by building on a community of existing enterprise-grade data centers, Impossible Cloud can rapidly grow its network to meet customer demand anywhere, with plans to open many more regions in the coming months and years.
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