CrowdStrike plans in-country clouds for India, Saudi Arabia and the UAE to address data sovereignty demands

CrowdStrike is expanding its Global Data Sovereignty initiative with plans to launch new in-country regional cloud deployments in India, Saudi Arabia and the United Arab Emirates, as enterprises in regulated markets push for stronger local data residency without compromising on threat intelligence.

The move is aimed at helping organisations in these regions adopt and consolidate on the CrowdStrike Falcon platform while keeping security data resident within national borders — a requirement that is becoming increasingly critical as governments tighten rules around data localisation and digital sovereignty.

Balancing local residency with global defence

CrowdStrike’s approach is designed to address a long-standing tension in cybersecurity: how to meet local data sovereignty mandates without fragmenting security operations or weakening protection against globally distributed adversaries.

According to the company, the new regional clouds will allow customers to deploy the Falcon platform locally while remaining connected to CrowdStrike’s global telemetry, threat ...