Scope of Sovereign

Controls by Partners solutions

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As further described in the

Services Summary , Sovereign Controls by Partners (also known as “Sovereign Controls by Sovereign Partners”) are solutions offered by Google that are complemented by a set of services offered by third party partners (“Sovereign Controls 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 Sovereign Controls 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:

BigQuery (Preview)
Cloud External Key Manager (Cloud EKM)
Cloud Logging
Cloud SQL
Cloud Storage
Compute Engine
Google Kubernetes Engine
Cloud Key Management Service
Persistent Disk

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).

Sovereign Controls Partners

Sovereign Controls 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 “Sovereign Controls by T-Systems”
Thales Cloud Sécurisé (“S3NS”) (currently in Preview for all Supported Google Cloud Services), who offers “Local Controls by S3NS”

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