Compliance controls for regulated workloads with automatic enforcement of data residency and security policies.
What is Assured Workloads?
Assured Workloads is Google’s solution for meeting strict compliance requirements in the cloud. The service creates isolated environments within Google Cloud that automatically enforce data residency controls, personnel access restrictions, and encryption policies. Organizations in regulated industries such as financial services, healthcare, or the public sector can use cloud resources without compromising compliance obligations.
The service automatically configures organization policies that prevent data from being moved to non-compliant regions or accessed by unauthorized personnel. For European customers, Assured Workloads offers EU data residency and EU Sovereign Controls, ensuring data is processed exclusively in EU data centers and only EU-based support personnel have access.
Assured Workloads continuously monitors compliance with configured policies and reports deviations. This proactive monitoring reduces the risk of compliance violations and significantly simplifies audit processes.
Core Features
- Data Residency: Automatic enforcement of regional data storage and processing according to regulatory requirements
- Personnel Access Control: Restriction of Google support access to authorized personnel from specific regions
- Encryption Policies: Enforcement of Customer-Managed Encryption Keys (CMEK) for all workload data
- Compliance Monitoring: Continuous monitoring and reporting on compliance status of all configured workloads
Typical Use Cases
Regulated Workloads in Financial Services
Banks and financial service providers use Assured Workloads to comply with regulatory requirements. Data residency controls ensure customer data remains in EU regions, while personnel access restrictions limit data access to authorized teams.
EU Data Sovereignty for the Public Sector
Government agencies and public institutions can use EU Sovereign Controls to ensure all data is processed in EU data centers and only EU-based Google personnel receive support access.
Benefits
- Automatic compliance enforcement without manual configuration
- Support for EU data residency and Sovereign Controls
- Continuous compliance monitoring with deviation alerts
- Seamless integration with existing Google Cloud projects
Integration with innFactory
As a Google Cloud partner, innFactory supports you with Assured Workloads: compliance requirements analysis, setup of compliant environments, migration of existing workloads, and ongoing compliance management.
Typical Use Cases
Frequently Asked Questions
What is Assured Workloads?
Assured Workloads is a Google Cloud service that provides compliance controls for regulated workloads. It enforces data residency, personnel access controls, and encryption policies to comply with industry-specific and regional regulations.
Which compliance frameworks are supported?
Assured Workloads supports EU data residency, EU Sovereign Controls, FedRAMP, CJIS, ITAR, IL4/IL5, and other framework-specific configurations. Available frameworks vary by region.
How does Assured Workloads differ from VPC Service Controls?
VPC Service Controls protect against data exfiltration at the API level. Assured Workloads goes further by enforcing data residency, personnel access, and encryption at the organization level. Both services complement each other for comprehensive compliance protection.
