THE CHALLENGE
Managing data governance
Organizations face a critical challenge as they strive to leverage more agile technology while maintaining tight control of their data, especially in regions with strict data sovereignty requirements. They adopt a mix of new cloud databases while sustaining legacy infrastructure. However, these disparate environments result in siloed data, complex management, and costly lock-in from both legacy and cloud vendors. Efficient hybrid strategies are essential to maintain tight control of data, reduce costs, and increase efficiency without compromising control or compliance.
OUR SOLUTION
Leverage a sovereign data and AI platform
EDB Postgres® AI offers a sovereign data and AI platform with the security and control of bare metal and the agility benefits of cloud, deployed in your environment of choice. Run transactional, analytical, and AI workloads with highly regulated data on-premises to meet compliance standards while running other workloads in the cloud to leverage its flexibility and scalability—all with a consistent experience through a single, unified control plane.
Hybrid deployment flexibility
Deploy EDB Postgres AI in public or private clouds, multi-cloud, or on-premises without being tied to a single infrastructure provider. Reduce reliance on third parties to ensure data sovereignty, security, compliance, and cost efficiency.
Unified management console
Leverage one software installation to deploy and manage hundreds of EDB Postgres database clusters, tools, and extensions from a single interface. With all your key data in the same place, you can more easily govern your data.
Single pane of glass
Monitor, observe, and respond to issues in real time. Built-in query diagnostics help you identify problems and bottlenecks up to 5x faster and accelerate application performance up to 8x.
Hardened Postgres
Activity logs, user management, data redaction, and SQL injection protection ensure security across your database clusters. 100% of the EDB codebase is hardened and backed by enterprise-grade security best practices, so you can operate with confidence.
Spend less time worrying about the governance and management of your corporate data, and more time innovating.
Maximize control of your data
Keep up with your data sovereignty and compliance standards. Maintain tight control of data on your deployment of choice while still leveraging open source PostgreSQL's cost-effectiveness, customization, and active community support.
Improve operational efficiency
Achieve cloud agility and scalability while boosting productivity using a single platform with end-to-end database automation. With query diagnostics and visibility into 200+ metrics across sovereign deployments, you can drive operational efficiency and rapid innovation.
Reduce costs
Reduce costs caused by legacy licensing agreements, disparate tools, training for specialized skills, and costly cloud consumption patterns and lock-in. With EDB Postgres AI running on dedicated hardware in your private data center, you can achieve up to 90% better value (price/performance) than in the cloud.
EDB Postgres AI enables data sovereignty
Maintain control of your data in a sovereign environment, ensuring maximum security, compliance, and governance. EDB Postgres AI streamlines database operations with automated backups, point-in-time recovery, provisioning, activity logs, user management, and alerts and notifications—even in your private data center.
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Navigating Today’s Database Management Dilemmas
Data sovereignty is the right to exercise control over data. In a compliance and governance context, it refers to the idea that data is subject to the laws and regulations of the country or region where the data originates. Data sovereignty is closely related to, but not the same as, data localization: storing data within the country or region where it originated.
Some key benefits of achieving data sovereignty:
- Compliance: In many countries, there are regulations concerning the privacy, security, and storage of data. Failure to comply with these regulations has legal and financial consequences. EDB Postgres AI helps organizations achieve observability and exercise full control over their entire Postgres fleet.
- Security: With advanced observability features, EDB Postgres AI helps control access to sensitive data.
- Consumer confidence: Strong control over your organization’s data can help build confidence with your customers that their data is safe and protected.
EDB Postgres AI is available as self-managed software ready to deploy across any environment—in public or private clouds, on-premises, or hybrid deployments. This hybrid model breaks down data silos with a single pane of glass for monitoring and managing your entire database fleet—not just EDB Postgres, but also self-managed Postgres, Kubernetes, and third-party DBaaS like Amazon RDS—to reduce reliance on third parties and ensure security, compliance, and control across your entire organization.
Yes, EDB Postgres AI can be deployed as a self-managed software solution in the cloud or on-premises (EDB Postgres AI Software Deployment) or as a fully managed cloud service (EDB Postgres AI Cloud Service).
Industries such as finance, healthcare, and government deal with sensitive, private data and often have strict compliance regulations or even localization requirements. These industries are good fits for this use case. EDB Postgres AI can work for any industry, though—companies who deploy Postgres on multiple environments due to data regulations can consider EDB Postgres AI to help consolidate complex database environments and simplify management, allowing their teams access to data securely and without complexity.
The most well-known data sovereignty regulations are within the European Union’s General Data Protection Act (GDPR). Data sovereignty laws also exist in the United States, but they are not comprehensive across the country and vary by state—many states have unique data privacy laws. In the United States, laws prioritize data security and consumer notification of breaches more than localization of data. Some examples include:
- Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act (HIPAA): Protects sensitive health information. HIPAA governs use, disclosure, and security measures for private health information (PHI).
- Gramm-Leach-Bliley Act (GLBA): Ensures the privacy and security of consumers’ personal financial data. It requires financial institutions to implement security measures to protect against fraud, data breaches, and unauthorized access and ensures that consumers are notified if breaches occur.
- California's Consumer Privacy Act (CCPA): Gives California residents a certain amount of control over the personal data that businesses collect about them. It is similar to GDPR in that California consumers can opt out of allowing their data to be sold, request that their personal information be deleted, and know what personal data is being collected about them.