How do you get your data closer to your business while navigating move to cloud complexity? How can you ensure better infrastructure performance for your customers worldwide? Discover OVHcloud Local Zones: a groundbreaking compute solution for you, your customers and partners’ global expansion.

In this blog post, you will learn how to navigate through cloud architectures challenges. Unlock a realm of opportunities to expand globally while acting locally. Find out how to enhance your business with closer-to-use cloud infrastructure.

From centralized data centers to local data

For years, the traditional cloud architecture relied on a few centralized data centers. This often lead to data residency issues and unsatisfying user experience due to latency. Now, with our global infrastructure deployment concept comes a new era. OVHcloud Local Zones shorten the long distances travel of your data. Ensuring localized owned management of your infrastructure. You can now have the power to choose wherever you want to host your data globally and how to protect the most sensitive ones locally. 

“Cross-border data transfers can have a huge positive impact on the economy by 2030 if we make the right decisions now.” – Hilary Mine, President of DIGITALEUROPE 

How to help your data navigate the right way with Local Zones

OVHcloud’s Local Zones extend the reach of its infrastructure to key urban hubs across several countries. Within the coming years, we will offer new infrastructure in 150 cities. These infrastructures simplify localization of sensitive data. On top of that, it improves application performance across the board, without imposing exorbitant costs or complexities on organizations. 

Three Ways Local Zones Help International Companies 

1. Store Data Locally: Operating in multiple countries often entails grappling with regulatory complexities. Local Zones enable businesses to store data within the same country. With a minimized latency, ensuring faster content delivery, and facilitating data localization and protection. 
2. Scale with Confidence: Locating data centers nearest to areas of high user demand is strategical. That’s why Local Zones allow companies to deploy at scale and expand their services seamlessly. All of this while maintaining reliability and freedom of choice. Always, at the best price performance ratio.
3. Improve User Experience: In an age where consumers demand lightning-fast responsiveness, Local Zones facilitate the hosting of services locally, resulting in lower latency and higher user satisfaction.

Expand Safely with Local Zones 

That’s right. It goes without saying that data residency and state-of-the-art computing are crucial. What’s more, reduced latency and international expansion make OVHcloud an indispensable partner for companies on the road to digital transformation. Especially if you’re looking to gain a competitive edge in the global marketplace.

Ready to Elevate Your Business with OVHcloud? 

Whether you’re navigating complex data localization or sensitiveness or striving to deliver unparalleled user experiences, OVHcloud’s Local Zones can offer.  

OVHcloud Local Zones make real the principles of Edge Computing offering businesses robust, flexible, and secure cloud solutions. Don’t miss our suite of offerings including:

• B3 compute instances,
• Block storage,
• Object Storage S3 compatible
• Volume snapshots
• Automatic back-up
• An expanding array of new features coming up!
  
  OVHcloud isn’t just meeting industry standards—it’s setting the pace.

And the perspective for your business development with Local Zones doesn’t stop there. Indeed, with Kubernetes, volume snapshots, automatic back-up on the horizon: the future looks brighter than ever for those seeking top-tier cloud services. Meanwhile, you can already learn how to create a kube cluster in a Local Zone through managed rancher service (thanks Aurélie).

So, just dive in! The OVHcloud Local Zones journey is only just beginning…

Our upcoming local zones deployment worldwide:

• Boston
• Oslo
• Helsinki
• Copenhagen
• Manchester
• Salt Lake City
• Phoenix

Reach out today to explore how OVHcloud can help you gain a measurable competitive advantage in an increasingly digital world.

The Object Storage, a core product in our lineup, is a fundamental building block in many of our customers’ cloud architecture. The first half of 2024 saw many new features and expanded geo availability. Here’s a summary of all the releases so far.

Enhanced security with SSE-S3 feature!

We are delighted to let you know our Server-Side Encryption (SSE-S3) feature is now globally available. With OVHcloud Managed Keys (OMK), you can encrypt and securely store your objects in our Key Management Service (KMS). The best part? It won’t cost you any extra! This feature not only encrypts files at rest for enhanced data protection but also boosts Object Storage compatibility with S3 API.

🔗 Learn more about SSE-S3 encryption

Seamless data management with asynchronous replication

Our new object replication feature automatically and asynchronously replicates objects from a source bucket to one or more destination buckets, ensuring your data remains consistent, available, and redundant. You can choose destination buckets within the same region or across different regions. This gives you the flexibility to strategically place and handle your data wherever it’s most needed.

🔗 Find out more about asynchronous replication

Simplified access with single endpoints

Managing your data has never been easier. You can now access all your buckets and objects via a single endpoint, which simplifies your setup and minimises potential errors. This means your bucket can hold a mix of both standard and high-performance objects. Simplifying things allows us to introduce advanced features like lifecycle policies. These policies will automate data management, reducing storage costs and boosting data productivity. Stay tuned! This feature is set to launch in the coming weeks!

🔗 Learn more about single endpoints and upcoming lifecycle policies

Geographic Availability

Stay tuned for more updates as we continue to innovate and improve our Object Storage solutions to meet your needs, see here.

The OVHcloud team.

What is the CLOUD Act?

The CLOUD Act or the Clarifying Lawful Overseas Use of Data Act, was enacted in the United States in 2018. Its primary purpose is to provide law enforcement agencies with enhanced access to electronic data held by American technology companies. Even if the data is stored outside the United States. The CLOUD Act also enables reciprocal data-sharing agreements between the U.S. and other foreign governments. While the CLOUD Act has implications for data stored in the cloud, it primarily affects cloud providers subject to U.S. jurisdiction.

What are the Implications for our Partners’ Customers in terms of Privacy and Data Security?

1. Access to Data: Under the CLOUD Act, U.S. law enforcement agencies can compel cloud providers to disclose customer data, regardless of its physical location. As a Managed Service Provider or Reseller, this would mean that even if your client’s data is stored in a server outside the U.S., it may still be subject to access by U.S. authorities if your cloud provider is subject to the CLOUD Act. This raises concerns about potential infringement on individual privacy rights and the ability to maintain control over personal and sensitive information.

2. Data Security: When your client’s data, or yours for that matter, is stored with a cloud provider bound by the CLOUD Act, it is subject to additional risks in terms of security. The CLOUD Act requires cloud providers to provide access to data, potentially introducing vulnerabilities that malicious actors could exploit. This highlights the importance of robust security measures to protect data stored in the cloud, including encryption, access controls, and regular audits of the provider’s security practices.

3. International Data Protection: The CLOUD Act’s provisions for international data-sharing agreements raise questions about how data is protected and governed in different jurisdictions. Data stored with a cloud provider bound by the CLOUD Act may be subject to different legal standards and regulations, depending on the country involved. This can complicate compliance with data protection laws, such as the European Union’s General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR), which imposes stringent requirements on the handling of personal data.

How can you Mitigate this Risk for your Clients?

As a Reseller, System Integrator, Managed Service Provider or adviser, your client’s data and its security is at heart of your offering. The responsible choosing of a cloud provider is therefore imperative in order to reduce this risk. More concretely, you do it by choosing cloud providers that are transparent about their data handling practices, by assessing their jurisdiction and by understanding the legal frameworks they operate under.

At OVHcloud in Europe, we are CLOUD Act free.

Full Compliance with European Regulations, Freedoms and Fundamental Right

Organizationally, the OVHcloud Group is a European group in which European commercial entities fall under the exclusive jurisdiction of European Union member states, or states that have been subject to a European Commission adequacy decision. These entities are controlled by OVH Groupe, a company governed by French law, with no dependency links to any entity or organisation subject to the jurisdiction of states that do not provide an adequate level of data protection.

Requests from non-EU authorities (governmental, administrative, judicial or other) may be made for the communication of a European user’s data hosted in a datacenter located within the European Union. In this case, OVHcloud systematically opposes to such requests. In accordance with EU regulations; this is the  this is the case for example when they are not carried out in accordance with an international agreement — such as a treaty on mutual legal assistance in force between the requesting country and the Member State(s) of the European Union concerned.

Compliant with the Strictest Security Standards

The SecNumCloud Security Visa, obtained by OVHcloud in early 2021, plus the renewed SecNumCloud 3.2 gained in 2023 to accelerate OVHcloud strategy on its datacenters, give certified cloud service customers the assurance that they will choose solutions with a security and trust level verified by ANSSI (the French National Agency for Information Systems Security).  OVHcloud also obtained security labels in other countries (for example G-cloud in the UK and AgiD in Italy), and provides its cloud services to the administrations of several European Union state members, as well as European Commission institutions.

As the use of cloud storage becomes increasingly prevalent, it is vital to understand the implications of entrusting your customer’s data to cloud providers subject to the CLOUD Act. Balancing the benefits of cloud computing with the potential risks to privacy and data security requires informed decision-making and proactive measures. At OVHcloud, the data protection of our clients and of our partner’s clients is the core of our operation. By choosing providers wisely, implementing robust security measures, and staying vigilant about data protection, clients and partners can navigate the cloud landscape while safeguarding their information in the face of evolving legal frameworks.

Get to know more about how Data Sovereignty and Trusted Cloud is critical for business: https://blog.ovhcloud.com/data-sovereignty-trusted-cloud-critical-business/

MongoDB can also be a powerful data source for IoT, BI and data analytics platforms. However, deploying and configuring this popular database engine requires specialist skills. Moreover, you need adequate resources to manage the machines that host your databases (e.g., for maintenance, updates, obsolescence management).

Why migrate your MongoDB to a managed Database as a Service ?

Installing MongoDB on a single server, VPS or Public Cloud instance is straightforward, but it becomes challenging once your project is up and running and/or starts to gain momentum. This involves ensuring a stable environment, deploying a cluster with several nodes (a primary read/write node and read-only secondary nodes), or setting up automatic backups. This also means mobilising specialised resources that could be allocated to your main business — developing the best applications for your internal of external customers 

OVHcloud offers a managed MongoDB solution. It’s managed for you by our team and hosted in a trusted cloud. This Database as a Service (DBaaS) solution designed and offered in partnership with MongoDB Inc., frees up your system administrators (SysAdmins) without the need to trade off your performance commitments. It’s not a shared service, user benefits from dedicated resources except for the Free Tier Discovery solution, where CPU and RAM are shared on a top of a mutualized Kubernetes stack. This service also helps you tackle the challenge of scaling your database, it comes with syncing and distributing data across several nodes. You can also automatically back it up (a feature included in paid plans).

Here’s why delegating the deployment and administration of your database to OVHcloud, a MongoDB infrastructure expert, is a good idea. You can achieve greater efficiency and build more reliable, powerful and secure applications, while optimising the total cost of ownership (TCO) and time to market of your data.

High availability, high performance, and resilience by design

All MongoDB solutions offered by OVHcloud rely on at least a 3-node replica set. Or a replica set of up to 7 nodes. This is to ensure your data is completely safe (full data redundancy) in the event of machine failure. But also to balance load across all nodes for optimal performance.

The OVHcloud Free Tier Discovery plan can handle up to 3,000 IOPS, higher paid plans up to 20,000 IOPS.

An independant benchmark substantiated by benchANT shows that it offers the best value for performance than other hyperscalers document-oriented DBaaS offers.

You can choose any of the OVHcloud datacentres — in France, United Kingdom, Germany, Poland and Canada (coming soon to the United States, Singapore, India and Australia) to host the service. This is an option that allows you to offer your service as close as possible to your app’s users.

Furthermore, automatic backup in a remote datacentre is included in the Production and Advanced plans, with one snapshot per day stored for a 14-day rolling period and a Point in Time Recovery (PITR) with a 30-day retention period, respectively.

Lastly, please note that the Discovery and Production solutions are based on the MongoDB Community version, meaning 100% compatible and ensuring optimal portability for your MongoDB services. It’s not the case for instance with AWS DocumentDB and Azure CosmosDB that uses proprietary software not fully compatible with original MongoDB APIs. The Advanced solutions are based on the Enterprise version, licensed from MongoDB.

Let OVHcloud manage the scaling of your MongoDB cluster

Anyone who has ever used MongoDB knows that as a database cluster grows, the question of how many machines you should have and how to size them always arises. As recommended by the publisher, the machines in the same MongoDB cluster should be configured the same way. Otherwise, the cluster’s performance would match that of the weakest machine in the pool, or worse, lead to more serious machine failures.

These are some of the pitfalls you will be avoiding by allowing OVHcloud to manage your database. With the Production solution, you get a 3-node replica set, which you can scale (vertical scaling) up to 4 TB storage, 60 GB RAM and 16 vCPU, to suit your core needs and optimise costs. You no longer need to over-dimension your cluster, provision machines, or manage their obsolescence. Furthermore, you can automate Database Management Systems (DBMS) using Terraform. You can be billed per use, allowing you to optimally provision resources to match your workloads.

Enhanced security

Another advantage of outsourcing the hosting and management of MongoDB to an expert like OVHcloud is that you can ensure enhanced security. The hardening, updates and security of the DBMS hosting will no longer be a source of concern, when common vulnerabilities and exposures (CVE) are detected. And also, updates and patches are applied as soon as they become available. This is done using a rolling update procedure that minimises service downtime, in coordination with customers.

Managed Databases for MongoDB can also be interconnected with your other OVHcloud services via the vRack private network, wherever they are located. This is to avoid exposing your databases on the public network. Please note that traffic and private network charges are included.

Lastly, you benefit from the anti-DDoS and data encryption technologies offered by OVHcloud, as well as ISO/IEC 27001, 27017, 27018 and 27701 certifications; and the  HDS (hébergement de données de santé) certification in France. Your databases are compliant with healthcare data hosting standards in many countries.

Monitoring and support on the OVHcloud Control Panel

There are several solutions available. Especially via command-line tools and thick user interface clients. Much easier for monitoring your MongoDB cluster, which are provided by the publisher, or the community. However, you can always opt for simplicity, and monitor your data using features available on the OVHcloud Control Panel.

You will find, via the Control Panel, your database usage metrics consisting of number of read and write requests, number of clients using it, etc.. and CPU and RAM resources. This helps you to determine whether your cluster is the right size, i.e., if it’s too large or not enough. You can entrust OVHcloud with ensuring availability and alert processing — we will handle it for you and vouch for it. If the monitoring tools above offer you more indicators, the one provided by OVHcloud offers much more. It provides you with both real-time and historical data to compare with other time periods.

OVHcloud’s offerings including support provided by solution architects within the OVHcloud Professional Services team, working together with MongoDB Inc. teams to help you meet all your advanced needs, as well as different levels of 24/7 support plans.

Check the quick-start guide and login with your OVHcloud account to try your always-free MongoDB Discovery cluster !