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GitHub Enterprise Cloud with data residency: How we built the next evolution of GitHub Enterprise using GitHub

Jim Wang — Tue, 24 Sep 2024 05:00:31 +0000

How we used GitHub to build GitHub Enterprise Cloud with data residency.

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Introducing a new AWS whitepaper: Does data localization cause more problems than it solves?

Jana Kay — Fri, 10 Jun 2022 17:38:44 +0000

Amazon Web Services (AWS) recently released a new whitepaper, Does data localization cause more problems than it solves?, as part of the AWS Innovating Securely briefing series. The whitepaper draws on research from Emily Wu’s paper Sovereignty and Data Localization, published by Harvard University’s Belfer Center, and describes how countries can realize similar data localization […]

Disaster recovery compliance in the cloud, part 2: A structured approach

Dan MacKay — Tue, 14 Sep 2021 15:40:43 +0000

Compliance in the cloud is fraught with myths and misconceptions. This is particularly true when it comes to something as broad as disaster recovery (DR) compliance where the requirements are rarely prescriptive and often based on legacy risk-mitigation techniques that don’t account for the exceptional resilience of modern cloud-based architectures. For regulated entities subject to […]

Disaster recovery compliance in the cloud, part 1: Common misconceptions

Dan MacKay — Tue, 14 Sep 2021 15:39:37 +0000

Compliance in the cloud can seem challenging, especially for organizations in heavily regulated sectors such as financial services. Regulated financial institutions (FIs) must comply with laws and regulations (often in multiple jurisdictions), global security standards, their own corporate policies, and even contractual obligations with their customers and counterparties. These various compliance requirements may impose constraints […]