Safeguarding data sovereignty for hybrid multicloud applications

Enforce data residency, encryption, and access policies at the application layer across hybrid multicloud environments.

Enforce data sovereignty without operational fragmentation

Navigate complex data sovereignty laws across hybrid and multicloud environments with the F5 Application Delivery and Security Platform (F5 ADSP). By combining sovereignty-aware cloud services with locally managed F5 BIG-IP and NGINX, F5 ADSP gives you the tools to realize autonomy for your most sensitive workloads across the cloud, data center, and edge. Take control over where data lives, how it moves, its encryption, and who has access, empowering you to enforce strict compliance without sacrificing consistent security or performance.

Enforce residency at the application layer

Apply residency boundaries at the application layer, so traffic stays inside the jurisdiction that governs it. Routing decisions run locally. Flows never cross a border to reach a policy engine elsewhere, and sensitive records keep their required home region.

Choose where inspection and decryption happen

Define which environments perform payload inspection and which forward traffic untouched. Regulated workloads keep deep inspection inside the private boundary. Lower-risk services route through shared regional points of presence without exposing protected data or metadata.

Produce compliance evidence

Get consistent, verifiable logs across on-premises, cloud, and sovereign-cloud deployments. Compliance teams show exactly where information was processed, inspected, and stored. The same evidence proves exit readiness when regulators or procurement ask for it.

Operate within the sovereign perimeter

Maintain continuity even when external services can’t be relied on. Run delivery and security controls fully inside your sovereign boundary across hardware, software, and SaaS options, reducing reliance on third party management planes or “kill switch” dependencies.

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Where sovereignty controls meet app delivery and security

The tools for data sovereignty

F5 delivers consistent traffic management and security controls across environments, helping teams keep data in its required region while maintaining visibility and operational control. This supports critical-infrastructure compliance, with data remaining under customer control and jurisdiction.

How F5 helps

Place workloads by region and decide what crosses each border

F5 runs enforcement points inside each region. Apps and data stay where regulation requires. Routing decisions happen locally, so traffic reaches no policy engine abroad.

F5 Distributed Cloud Customer Edge

Local enforcement point that runs policy next to apps and serves traffic without leaving the region.

F5 Distributed Cloud Network Connect

Secure overlay that links regions while you determine which flows cross each boundary.

F5 BIG-IP DNS

Geo-aware routing that resolves users to in-region infrastructure by location.

iRules

Granular control over application traffic flows at layers 4–7, ensuring data and traffic never go where you don’t want them to.

Inspect traffic where allowed, leave sensitive payloads sealed elsewhere

F5 makes decryption a policy decision, not a default. Regulated or sensitive data flows bypass inspection. Other traffic routes to security tools without exposing protected content.

F5 BIG-IP SSL Orchestrator

Policy-based decryption and bypass keep regulated payloads from inspection in the wrong place.

F5 BIG-IP LTM

Encrypt traffic with a choice of cipher suites based on policy, compliance, or mobile needs.

Apply the same residency and security rules wherever the workload runs

F5 enforces at the application layer, so policy travels with the app. One model spans on-premises, cloud, SaaS, and air-gapped. No per-environment rewrite, no policy drift.

F5 Distributed Cloud Console

Platform-agnostic policies that can be deployed to any environment from a single engine and console.

Hybrid multicloud management

Centralized visibility and policy enforcement across clouds, data centers, and edge sites.

F5 AI Guardrails

Model-agnostic runtime policy enforces GDPR and EU AI Act duties across deployments.

Choose the model per app, with no foreign party in the path

F5 enables you to run the same enforcement across SaaS, cloud-native, hardware, software, and air-gapped environments. Match each app to its sovereignty need without splitting your operations.

SaaS (Distributed Cloud)

SaaS-delivered delivery and security for apps with lighter sovereignty needs.

F5 Distributed Cloud Customer Edge (CE)

CE software handles policies inside your cloud or cluster, close to apps and data.

Hardware and software (BIG-IP)

Self-managed BIG-IP runs inside your boundary with no kill switch or call-home.

Air-gapped

Fully isolated deployment for classified or critical apps with no external link.

Show where data was handled, and keep keys in your own hardware

F5 produces verifiable logs across every deployment for audit and exit. SSL orchestration runs inside your key boundary and integrates with your own HSM and KMS.

BIG-IP SSL Orchestrator

Integrates with customer-controlled HSM and KMS so key material stays in your hands.

Unified management and automation

On-premises logging, analytics, and auditability prove where data was processed.

Data residency