Oracle UK Sovereign Cloud
Formerly known as Oracle Cloud for UK Government and Defence, Oracle UK Sovereign Cloud is the first and only dedicated dual-region cloud offered by a major cloud service provider for eligible organisations that require UK data and operational sovereignty. Eligible government and defence customers can access a hyperscale cloud infrastructure platform that offers the services needed to build and run applications in a highly secure, compliant, scalable, and private community cloud.
Oracle UK Sovereign Cloud regions
Oracle delivers two geographically separate regions as part of the Oracle UK Sovereign Cloud:
• London, England
• Newport, Wales
The data centre facilities maintain UK Police Assured Secure Facilities (PASF) accreditation. The regions also adhere to the security principles outlined by the UK National Cyber Security Centre (NCSC) and are built upon the parameters necessary to store UK OFFICIAL SENSITIVE data.
Both regions are interconnected via a highly resilient, private high-speed backbone to facilitate a responsive, distributed architecture that enables disaster recovery and high availability. The Oracle UK Sovereign Cloud regions are physically isolated from other Oracle cloud regions and are located in their own secure data centre rooms within the UK data centre sites.
Both regions offer the following connectivity:
• Internet
• FastConnect
Operational sovereignty
The control and monitoring systems for the Oracle UK Sovereign Cloud are self-contained inside the sovereign cloud realm, further maintaining its UK sovereignty. UK citizens who reside within the UK and maintain UK Security Check (SC) clearance.
UK Sovereign Cloud capabilities
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Sovereign OCI
OCI Everything Everywhere IaaS and PaaS services delivered to provide data and operational sovereignty in the UK
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Sovereign AI
Comprehensive sovereign AI services and state-of-the-art generative AI innovations
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Sovereign data platform
Cloud database choices, AI/ML, data integration, data lake, analytics, no-code development, and more
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Sovereign cloud applications
Enterprise resource planning, supply chain management, human capital management, and more
Adopt hybrid cloud strategies with the Oracle UK Sovereign Cloud
Compute Cloud@Customer
Oracle Compute Cloud@Customer is a fully managed, rack-scale infrastructure that lets you use Oracle Cloud Infrastructure (OCI) Compute in your data centre, securely connected to an Oracle UK Sovereign Cloud region.
Roving Edge Infrastructure
Extend the Oracle UK Sovereign Cloud to the edge with Oracle Cloud Infrastructure Roving Edge Infrastructure.
Supporting mission-critical workloads and improving business agility
Reinvent workflows to accommodate new realities
Citizens have rising expectations for convenience, meaning governments must now create a more resilient, scalable architecture to meet their demands. Oracle Cloud Infrastructure (OCI) is the first major cloud vendor to support Layer 2 (L2) network virtualization, offering compatibility for databases, network appliances, and virtualization environments. Governments can migrate their mission-critical applications without re-architecting or sacrificing control and visibility.
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Reduce security risks by limiting the attack surface
Security and risk management are very important government considerations, and they require a secure cloud infrastructure based on least privileged access. Secure by design, zero trust as its mandate, OCI prevents threats from gaining access to customer data by isolating network virtualization. This greatly reduces the risk from hypervisor-based attacks and provides superior tenant isolation compared to earlier public cloud designs.
Learn about zero trust security with OCIEnsure business continuity with a disaster recovery plan
Governments must be resilient even when faced with natural disasters, public safety concerns, or national security threats. If a large-scale outage affects production applications, governments need the ability to restore the workloads quickly. Oracle’s unique dual-region cloud strategy enables UK Sovereign Cloud to deploy applications in multiple geographically separated locations—without having sensitive data leave the country. From high-bandwidth file synchronization to backup/restore and detailed database failover options, Oracle Cloud offers extremely cost-effective resiliency and disaster recovery (DR) solutions.
Setup a distributed architectureInvest in automation and focus on more critical functions
Governments have an increasingly diverse set of data sources that consume significant amounts of storage and risk exceeding the capacity of existing systems. This data is often locked away in silos preventing teams from gaining valuable insights. Consolidate 10s-1000s of databases on a unified service leveraging autonomous services to automate patching and performance tuning of the operating system and the database. Use Oracle Analytics Cloud for data preparation, machine learning, visualization, reporting, and augmented analysis on all types of data—in the cloud, on-premises, or in a hybrid deployment.
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Data sovereignty and security
Designed to reflect the requirements of the UK Government, Oracle UK Sovereign Cloud is a fully sovereign, dedicated dual-region cloud that is restricted to UK Government and Defence customers and UK Government-sponsored third parties.
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