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Scope of Data Boundary by Partners Solutions

As further described in the Services Summary, Data Boundary by Partners (also known as “Sovereign Controls by Sovereign Partners” and “Sovereign Controls by Partners”) are solutions offered by Google that are complemented by a set of services offered by third party partners (“Data Boundary Partners”); together these create additional controls for certain Google Services and allow the partner to provide additional security measures.

In-scope Google Cloud Controls

The Google controls included in Data Boundary by Partners solutions are:

• Access Transparency
• Cloud External Key Manager (Cloud EKM)
• Key Access Justifications (KAJ)

Certain Organization policy constraints will also be applied, as further detailed in the Documentation.

Supported Google Cloud Services

The controls above are currently compatible with the following Google products and services:

• Access Context Manager
• Access Transparency
• Artifact Registry
• BigQuery
• BigQuery Data Transfer Service
• BigTable
• Certificate Authority Service
• Cloud DNS
• Cloud External Key Manager (Cloud EKM)
• Cloud Key Management Service
• Cloud HSM (Hardware Security Module)
• Cloud Interconnect
• Cloud Load Balancing
• Cloud Logging
• Cloud Monitoring
• Cloud NAT (Network Address Translation)
• Cloud Router
• Cloud Run
• Cloud Service Mesh
• Cloud SQL
• Cloud Storage
• Cloud VPN
• Compute Engine
• Dataflow
• Firestore
• GKE Hub
• Google Cloud Armor
• Google Cloud Identity-Aware Proxy
• Google Kubernetes Engine
• Identity & Access Management (IAM)
• Identity Service
• Managed Service for Apache Airflow (formerly Cloud Composer)
• Managed Service for Apache Spark (formerly Dataproc)
• Memorystore (only in respect of Memorystore for Redis)
• Network Connectivity Center
• Organization Policy
• Persistent Disk
• Pub/Sub
• Resource Manager API
• Secret Manager
• Sensitive Data Protection (including Cloud Data Loss Prevention or DLP)
• Service Directory
• Spanner
• Speech-to-Text
• Virtual Private Cloud
• VPC Service Controls

Services in Preview are subject to Section 5 (Pre-GA Offerings Terms) of the General Service Terms of our Service Specific Terms (and applicable rules in your contract regarding Preview releases).

Data Boundary Partners

Data Boundary by Partners are complemented by a set of services, offered by, and under separate terms of service with, the following third party partners:

• T-Systems International GmbH (“T-Systems”), who offers “Germany Data Boundary by T-Systems”
• Thales Cloud Sécurisé (“S3NS”), who offers “France Data Boundary by S3NS” (“Crypt3ns“)
• Polo Strategico Nazionale S.p.A. (“Telecom Italia”) who offers “Italy Data Boundary by PSN”
• Middle East Cloud And Digital Transformation Company Limited (“CNTXT”) who offers “Kingdom of Saudi Arabia Data Boundary by CNTXT”

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