CrowdStrike Expands In-Country Clouds Across Saudi Arabia, India, and the UAE
New regional cloud deployments aim to meet local data residency rules without weakening global threat intelligence.
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CrowdStrike has expanded its global data sovereignty strategy by planning to launch new in-country cloud deployments in Saudi Arabia, India, and the United Arab Emirates to address rising regulatory, operational, and security demands.
The move allows organizations in these jurisdictions to keep security data resident locally while continuing to operate within CrowdStrike’s globally unified threat detection and response model.
The new regional clouds are part of CrowdStrike’s broader Global Data Sovereignty initiative, which aims to reconcile a tension many enterprises and governments now face: complying with increasingly strict data residency requirements without fragmenting cybersecurity operations or weakening defenses.
As regulations tighten around where sensitive data can be stored and processed, especially in sectors such as government, finance, and critical infrastructure, security vendors are under pressure to localize data while maintaining the benefits of global-scale intelligence.
CrowdStrike argues that localization should not come at the expense of visibility. According to George Kurtz, CEO of CrowdStrike, adversaries operate across borders and shared infrastructure, unconstrained by jurisdictional rules. “Data sovereignty requirements cannot come at the cost of AI-powered security,” Kurtz said, emphasizing that isolating security data can reduce defenders’ ability to detect, correlate, and respond to threats that move across geographies.
The new deployments are designed to address this challenge by giving organizations the option to run the CrowdStrike Falcon platform with data stored in-country, while still benefiting from global telemetry, threat intelligence, and expert-led threat hunting. In practical terms, this means regional customers can meet local compliance mandates without creating blind spots that can be exploited.
At the core of CrowdStrike’s approach is the idea that cybersecurity is fundamentally a data problem. Restricting how security data can be analyzed and correlated, the company argues, weakens protection rather than strengthening it.
The expansion into Saudi Arabia, India, and the UAE shows that markets are investing heavily in digital transformation, cloud infrastructure, and AI, while asserting greater control over national data.
For CrowdStrike, the bet is that secure governance, lawful data handling, and global-scale intelligence can coexist.
