Data must stay within one country by law. What do you consider first?
Why A is the answer
Regional choices for storage and access
Laws on data sovereignty make regional choices for storage and access the first thing to consider.
In detail
- Regional choices decide where data is stored and accessed.
- Check backups and replicas as well.
Use case
An illustrative scenario, not a real incident.
A German insurer must keep records in Germany, so it starts by choosing regions for storage and access.
See it in different ways
flowchart TD A["Protect data"] --> B["Cloud IAM and organization policies"] A --> C["Encryption and key management"] A --> D["Cloud DLP for personal data"] A --> E["Regional storage for sovereignty"]
mindmap
root((Governance))
Location
Regional storage
Organization policies
Protection
Cloud DLP
Data masking
Separation
Project per environment
Ownership
Federated governanceflowchart LR S0["Know the law"] --> S1["Choose regions"] --> S2["Check backups"] --> S3["Limit access"]
Key point: Sovereignty begins with regions.
Why the other options are wrong
- B. A larger number of Pub/Sub topics
- Topic count does not set location.
- C. A larger Dataflow worker pool
- Worker count does not set location.
- D. A new BI Engine reservation
- BI Engine does not set location.