Data sovereignty and hosting

Your data. Your perimeter. Your legal jurisdiction.

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Architectural sovereignty without operational compromise

Where your data resides matters. Who operates your clusters, who holds administrative access and which legal frameworks govern your infrastructure matter just as much.

Observata combines an EU-based operating model with self-managed Elastic architectures. Our specialists work entirely within the European Union. Critical telemetry stays inside your perimeter, governed by European law and protected from foreign jurisdiction.

Your operational requirements define the architecture. Not the other way around.

Deployment models built around your perimeter

Organisations face distinct regulatory, geographical and security constraints. We engineer and operate Elastic across four sovereign deployment architectures:

On-premises environments

Run complete Elastic clusters inside your own data centres. Your internal infrastructure teams retain absolute authority over hardware, networking and physical access.

Sovereign European cloud

Deploy within selected European cloud providers and nationally certified facilities. This guarantees complete data residency and operational alignment with local compliance mandates.

Hybrid architectures

Connect private data centres with dedicated European hosting environments. We design secure pipelines to govern exactly how and where telemetry flows between perimeters.

Air-gapped networks

Operate mission-critical clusters in disconnected environments without internet access. We manage offline package dependencies, air-gapped updates and local security registries.

European specialists. Strict EU governance.

True sovereignty requires more than selecting a regional data centre. It requires total clarity over who operates your infrastructure and holds administrative access.

Governed by EU law

Observata operates strictly within the European Union legal framework. Our services comply fully with GDPR, NIS2 directives and European data privacy legislation.

Dedicated European engineering

Your named Service Owner and specialists reside and work within the European Union. We provide deep technical delivery without routing operational access outside the EU.

Direct technical accountability

We operate through your approved access gateways, privileged access management systems and jump hosts. Administrative sovereignty remains entirely in your hands.

Self-managed Elastic engineering

Observata focuses on self-managed Elastic software rather than shared multi-tenant SaaS environments.

Our contractual partnership is with Elastic N.V., incorporated in the Netherlands. We deploy and run enterprise Elastic capabilities directly inside the infrastructure you choose.

  • Unified platform capability: Ingest logs, system metrics, distributed traces and security events into a single sovereign platform.
  • Autonomous infrastructure control: You dictate storage lifecycles, resource allocation and underlying compute environments.
  • Resilience without external dependencies: Run search, analytics and threat detection even during wider external network disruptions.

Sovereign security analytics and detection

Modern cyber defence demands deep investigative capability without exporting sensitive telemetry to third-party proprietary clouds.

We build sovereign security operations using self-managed Elastic Security.

  • Internal SIEM and detection engineering: Detect threats, execute correlation rules and manage alerts entirely inside your protected environment.
  • Sovereign security data lakes: Retain security telemetry for long-term compliance without unbounded SaaS ingestion fees or foreign exposure.
  • Controlled threat hunting: Query historical system data instantly using your own compute resources and custom detection logic.

Customer-controlled access and governance

We embed least-privilege security principles and auditable governance into every platform we manage:

Cyber defence

Identity and federation

Integrate your enterprise identity providers, including Microsoft Entra ID, using SAML and Single Sign-On. Your internal security team manages credentials and user revocation centrally.

Security, privacy, and performance status with fix options

Granular role controls

Configure Role-Based Access Control down to index patterns, document fields and dashboard visibility. Users access only the specific telemetry their role requires.

Data becomes intelligent

Audited operational access

Specialists access systems through named individual accounts, multi-factor authentication and recorded sessions. We never use shared root credentials or undocumented backdoors.

Correlations in data

Validated change procedures

Before updates reach production, changes undergo validation in staging environments. Deployments follow approved runbooks, verified rollbacks and agreed windows.

Discuss your sovereignty requirements

Explore how Observata brings European governance, technical precision and complete architectural control to your Elastic estate.

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Operating model

A unified framework for your entire Elastic estate. We connect technical leadership, specialist delivery and clear operational governance.

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ODDA

A disciplined framework for telemetry economics. We eliminate data noise and align every ingestion pipeline with business decisions.

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Meet Observata

European specialists dedicated to your Elastic estate. We combine senior platform leadership with hands-on delivery under EU governance.

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