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UAE’s sovereign financial cloud aims to safeguard more than just data  


The UAE Central Bank’s initiative to build a sovereign cloud platform for the country’s financial institutions goes beyond data residency, according to experts. 

The AI-powered sovereign financial cloud service infrastructure, which will function on an isolated yet centralized architecture, is designed to ensure the continuous availability of critical financial services for the local financial sector. 

“Sovereign financial clouds are designed to protect the financial system itself, not just the data inside it,” Matt Kaluzny, a cloud & data architect tells Salaam Gateway.

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