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Sovereign cloud and data residency review

Map where your data rests, where it is processed and who could compel access — against UK, EU, UAE and sector rules — then fix what matters.

Typical timing
4–6 weeks
Engagement
Fixed scope
Delivery framework
User researchDiscoveryAlphaBetaLive
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Objective

Give leadership a clear answer to “are we sovereign enough?”. Sovereignty covers more than where data is stored: processing location, support access, key custody and foreign legal reach all count. We map each against the obligations that apply to you and design proportionate controls, from customer-managed keys to sovereign or in-country regions.

You may need this if

  • Public sector, defence, financial or health customers are asking sovereignty questions
  • You operate across the UK, EU and Gulf with different residency rules
  • Concern about foreign access to data or dependency on one provider
How it runs

Activities, step by step

The plan follows our delivery framework. Steps that do not apply to this kind of work are left out rather than padded.

  1. 02 · Discovery2 weeks

    Obligations and data flows

    • Legal, regulatory and contractual obligations catalogued
    • Data flows traced across regions, suppliers and support paths
    • Classification of data by sovereignty sensitivity
  2. 03 · Alpha1–2 weeks

    Gap analysis

    • Residency, processing, access and key-custody gaps rated
    • Options compared: controls, sovereign regions, in-country or on-premises
    • Exit and portability exposure assessed
  3. 04 · Beta1–2 weeks

    Target architecture

    • Sovereignty architecture with trade-offs stated
    • Costed remediation roadmap
    • Board-level summary

Deliverables

What you keep at the end.

  • Data residency and sovereignty map
  • Obligations register and gap analysis
  • Target sovereign architecture
  • Costed remediation roadmap

Outcomes

What it is built to change.

  • Confident answers for customers, regulators and procurement
  • Sovereignty controls where they are warranted, not everywhere by reflex
  • A credible exit option from any single provider

Often combined with

Every engagement starts with a 45-minute working session with the SME who would own the work. No deck.

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