Multi-Cloud Connectivity for Regulated Industries: Meeting Compliance and Data Sovereignty Need
Cloud adoption for the significance of financial services, healthcare, insurance, and government is perhaps a regulatory problem more than a technical change. A decision regarding the infrastructure, such as data storage or access to it, must satisfactorily comply with strict compliance standards, including regional laws. This situation marks a great demand for multi-cloud connectivity.
The regulators require supervision over security, transparency, and control, as well as sovereignty of the data latter being considered more important, while the data crosses platforms and geographical locations.
The Core Challenge
From the regulator’s perspective, these questions take on the utmost importance:
- Where does the data reside?
- Who accesses it and at what location?
- How is the data protected while in transit or at rest?
- How do we demonstrate to the auditor that we have complied?
Effectively managing these parameters becomes a complex challenge when AWS, Azure, Google Cloud, and private environments are operating in parallel. Imagine if your clouds stand as an island and network traffic runs over the public internet; with such odds, the risk creeps in. So do risk of compliance gaps.
Where Multi-Cloud Connectivity Comes In
Here comes some of the many challenges: It creates highly secure, high-performance cloud-to-cloud, insecure user-to-data-centre bridges. Perhaps more importantly, multi-cloud connectivity allows you to make key decisions regarding where workloads run, how data flows, and who has access thereto..
But how exactly? Several laws dictate that data should be kept within the boundaries of a nation or region. With the multi-cloud, one can sell and run workloads in specific geographies but remain connected globally. No design compromises for compliance with:
- Impenetrable Privacy: The worst-case response is public internet routing as an exposure of data. Multiplying cloud connectivity provides private, encrypted links with the least attack surface and highest regulatory-grade security when data transfer is in transit across platforms.
- Policy-based Access Control: Integrated with IAM, where access is based on role, location, or device; customers only touch sensitive data to keep you with GDPR, HIPAA, or PCI-DSS.
- Unified Monitoring and Reporting: Good regulatory practices require logs and audit trails to be created and real-time visibility to be ensured. Great multi-cloud implementations offer centralised dashboarding for everything from access attempts to data movement; it’s a trusted visibility.
- Built-in Resilience: Not just regulations, but compliance checks also operate for continuity. Multi-cloud connectivity helps with continuous operations in the face of pressure through redundancy, instant failover, and low-latency performance. Smoother audits, less downtime, and a better risk posture.
Tata Communications Advantage
IZO™ Multi Cloud Connect services are specially designed for regulated users. The services carry security at a carrier level, have geo-specific routing, and include direct access to all major cloud providers, ensuring that you are staying compliant yet agile. You get to manage your entire world of cloud connections from one place, with the performance and transparency expected by various regulatory agencies.
Conclusion
For regulated industries, compliance has to enter as their initial consideration. But it should never become obstructive. With multi-cloud connectivity in place, you can abide by data laws, secure sensitive information, and further cloud objectives, all with the highest confidence and assurance of security. Because, just as it is the law, so must cloud connectivity be.
