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International availability of Microsoft Cloud for Sovereignty

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This article provides comprehensive information about the availability and locations of key features within Microsoft Cloud for Sovereignty. This document covers the following details:

  • Sovereign Landing Zone
  • Confidential Computing on Azure
  • Regional Availability of Sovereign Landing Zone

Sovereign Landing Zone (SLZ)

The Sovereign Landing Zone is an opinionated variant of the Azure Landing Zone that provides an enterprise scale cloud infrastructure focused on operational control of data at rest, in transit, and in use. SLZ focuses on service location management, customer managed keys, and confidential computing to create a cloud architecture that enhances workload security.

The SLZ brings together enterprise scale cloud architecture, policies, and compliance reports to create a platform for secure deployment of workloads. For more information, see Sovereign Guardrails – Sovereign Landing Zone

Confidential computing on Azure

Confidential computing is an industry term defined by the Confidential Computing Consortium (CCC) - a foundation dedicated to defining and accelerating the adoption of confidential computing. The CCC defines confidential computing as the protection of data in use by performing computations in a hardware-based Trusted Execution Environment (TEE).

ACC (Azure confidential computing) protects and encrypts memory in use and minimizes the need to trust system processes (like host OS and hypervisor) and human operators like host admin or VM admin.

You can find a list of Azure Confidential Compute offerings at Confidential Computing on Azure. For more information, see Azure Confidential Computing.

Regional availability

Microsoft Cloud for Sovereignty is a global service leveraging many products and services. Some services may have differing regional availability. The SLZ can be deployed to any region, and customized to meet the unique needs of your organization and any regional constraints.

Availability of Microsoft Cloud for Sovereignty solutions is based on the availability of each of the individual products and services listed as follows:

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