We partner with Google Cloud to deliver sovereign Cloud solutions

Today we announced a strategic partnership with Google Cloud to deliver sovereign cloud solutions enabling Spanish public administrations and private companies, particularly those operating in highly regulated sectors, to maintain strict control over their data hosted on Google Cloud.

As part of this partnership, at Telefónica we provide our capabilities as a trusted sovereignty partner in Spain, while Google Cloud is extending the capabilities of its Madrid region to offer Google Cloud Data Boundary to customers and partners in Spain.

With this service, which uses Google Cloud’s local infrastructure, we help provide verifiable controls over data protection, data residency and access, enabling compliance with Spain’s privacy and digital sovereignty requirements.

Through this joint service, the information that companies and public administrations store in Google Cloud is encrypted using keys generated and stored by Telefónica in our own sovereign cloud. In this way, we generate and manage the keys from Spanish territory as a sovereign operator, providing increased protection against unauthorised access from external jurisdictions.

This solution, which we announced during the Google Cloud IA Madrid event, enables organisations to define precise data residency, data protection and access control policies through encryption keys generated and managed outside public cloud environments. In addition, we provide 24/7 support and monitoring, together with continuous auditing capabilities to help detect and alert organisations to policy changes that could compromise their compliance posture.