The names for some Assured Workloads control packages have changed. For information about the name change, see Control package renaming notice .

US Data Boundary and Support

This page describes the set of controls that are applied on US Data Boundary and Support workloads in Assured Workloads. It provides detailed information about data residency , supported Google Cloud products and their API endpoints, and any applicable restrictions or limitations on those products. The following additional information applies to US Data Boundary and Support:

Data residency: The US Data Boundary and Support control package sets data location controls to support US-only regions . See the Google Cloud-wide organization policy constraints section for more information.
Support: Technical support services for US Data Boundary and Support workloads are available with Enhanced or Premium Cloud Customer Care subscriptions. US Data Boundary and Support workloads support cases are routed to US Persons located in the US; see Getting support for more information.
Pricing: The US Data Boundary and Support control package is included in Assured Workloads' Premium tier , which incurs a 5% additional charge. See Assured Workloads pricing for more information.

Supported products and API endpoints

Unless otherwise noted, users can access all supported products through the Google Cloud console. Restrictions or limitations that affect the features of a supported product, including those that are enforced through organization policy constraint settings , are listed in the following table.

If a product is not listed, that product is unsupported and has not met the control requirements for US Data Boundary and Support. Unsupported products are not recommended for use without due diligence and a thorough understanding of your responsibilities in the shared responsibility model . Before using an unsupported product, ensure that you are aware of and are willing to accept any associated risks involved, such as negative impacts to data residency or data sovereignty.

Supported product	API endpoints	Restrictions or limitations
Access Approval	`accessapproval.googleapis.com`	None
Access Context Manager	`accesscontextmanager.googleapis.com`	None
Access Transparency	`accessapproval.googleapis.com`	None
AlloyDB for PostgreSQL	`alloydb.googleapis.com`	None
Cloud Service Mesh	`mesh.googleapis.com` `meshca.googleapis.com` `meshconfig.googleapis.com`	None
Apigee	`apigee.googleapis.com`	None
Artifact Registry	`artifactregistry.googleapis.com`	None
Backup for GKE	`gkebackup.googleapis.com`	None
BigQuery	`bigquery.googleapis.com` `bigqueryconnection.googleapis.com` `bigquerydatapolicy.googleapis.com` `bigquerydatatransfer.googleapis.com` `bigquerymigration.googleapis.com` `bigqueryreservation.googleapis.com` `bigquerystorage.googleapis.com`	Affected features
Bigtable	`bigtable.googleapis.com` `bigtableadmin.googleapis.com`	None
Binary Authorization	`binaryauthorization.googleapis.com`	None
Certificate Authority Service	`privateca.googleapis.com`	None
Cloud Asset Inventory	`cloudasset.googleapis.com`	None
Cloud Build	`cloudbuild.googleapis.com`	None
Cloud Composer	`composer.googleapis.com`	None
Cloud DNS	`dns.googleapis.com`	None
Cloud Data Fusion	`datafusion.googleapis.com`	None
Cloud External Key Manager (Cloud EKM)	`cloudkms.googleapis.com`	None
Cloud HSM	`cloudkms.googleapis.com`	None
Cloud Interconnect	`compute.googleapis.com`	None
Cloud Key Management Service (Cloud KMS)	`cloudkms.googleapis.com`	None
Cloud Load Balancing	`compute.googleapis.com`	None
Cloud Logging	`logging.googleapis.com`	Affected features
Cloud Monitoring	`monitoring.googleapis.com`	None
Cloud NAT	`compute.googleapis.com`	None
Cloud OS Login API	`oslogin.googleapis.com`	None
Cloud Router	`compute.googleapis.com`	None
Cloud Run	`run.googleapis.com`	Affected features
Cloud Run functions	`run.googleapis.com`	None
Cloud SQL	`sqladmin.googleapis.com`	None
Cloud SQL for PostgreSQL	`sqladmin.googleapis.com`	None
Cloud Storage	`storage.googleapis.com`	None
Cloud Tasks	`cloudtasks.googleapis.com`	None
Cloud VPN	`compute.googleapis.com`	None
Cloud Vision API	`vision.googleapis.com`	None
Cloud Workstations	`workstations.googleapis.com`	None
Compute Engine	`compute.googleapis.com`	Affected features and organization policy constraints
Config Sync	`anthosconfigmanagement.googleapis.com`	None
Connect	`gkeconnect.googleapis.com`	None
Sensitive Data Protection	`dlp.googleapis.com`	None
Database Center	`Not applicable`	None
Dataflow	`dataflow.googleapis.com` `datapipelines.googleapis.com`	None
Dataform	`dataform.googleapis.com`	None
Dataplex Universal Catalog	`dataplex.googleapis.com` `datalineage.googleapis.com`	None
Dataproc	`dataproc-control.googleapis.com` `dataproc.googleapis.com`	None
Document AI	`documentai.googleapis.com`	None
Essential Contacts	`essentialcontacts.googleapis.com`	None
Eventarc	`eventarc.googleapis.com`	None
Filestore	`file.googleapis.com`	None
Firebase Security Rules	`firebaserules.googleapis.com`	None
Firestore	`firestore.googleapis.com`	None
GKE Hub	`gkehub.googleapis.com`	None
GKE Identity Service	`anthosidentityservice.googleapis.com`	None
Generative AI on Vertex AI	`aiplatform.googleapis.com`	None
Google Agentspace	`discoveryengine.googleapis.com`	None
Google Cloud Armor	`compute.googleapis.com` `networksecurity.googleapis.com`	Affected features
Google Cloud NetApp Volumes	`netapp.googleapis.com`	Affected features
Google Kubernetes Engine (GKE)	`container.googleapis.com` `containersecurity.googleapis.com`	None
Google Security Operations SIEM	`chronicle.googleapis.com` `chronicleservicemanager.googleapis.com`	None
Google Security Operations SOAR	`Not applicable`	None
Identity and Access Management (IAM)	`iam.googleapis.com`	None
Identity-Aware Proxy (IAP)	`iap.googleapis.com`	None
Infrastructure Manager	`config.googleapis.com`	None
Looker (Google Cloud core)	`looker.googleapis.com`	None
Memorystore for Redis	`redis.googleapis.com`	None
Model Armor	`modelarmor.googleapis.com`	None
Network Connectivity Center	`networkconnectivity.googleapis.com`	None
Organization Policy Service	`orgpolicy.googleapis.com`	None
Persistent Disk	`compute.googleapis.com`	None
Personalized Service Health	`servicehealth.googleapis.com`	None
Pub/Sub	`pubsub.googleapis.com`	None
Resource Manager	`cloudresourcemanager.googleapis.com`	None
Secret Manager	`secretmanager.googleapis.com`	None
Secure Source Manager	`securesourcemanager.googleapis.com`	None
Serverless VPC Access	`vpcaccess.googleapis.com`	None
Spanner	`spanner.googleapis.com`	None
Speech-to-Text	`speech.googleapis.com`	None
Storage Transfer Service	`storagetransfer.googleapis.com`	None
Text-to-Speech	`texttospeech.googleapis.com`	None
Cloud Service Mesh	`trafficdirector.googleapis.com`	None
VPC Service Controls	`accesscontextmanager.googleapis.com`	None
Vertex AI Batch prediction	`aiplatform.googleapis.com`	None
Vertex AI Model Monitoring	`aiplatform.googleapis.com`	None
Vertex AI Model Registry	`aiplatform.googleapis.com`	None
Vertex AI Online prediction	`aiplatform.googleapis.com`	None
Vertex AI Pipelines	`aiplatform.googleapis.com`	None
Vertex AI Search	`discoveryengine.googleapis.com`	None
Vertex AI Training	`aiplatform.googleapis.com`	None
Virtual Private Cloud (VPC)	`compute.googleapis.com`	None
Web Risk	`webrisk.googleapis.com`	None

Restrictions and limitations

The following sections describe Google Cloud-wide or product-specific restrictions or limitations for features, including any organization policy constraints that are set by default on US Data Boundary and Support folders. Other applicable organization policy constraints —even if not set by default— can provide additional defense-in-depth to further protect your organization's Google Cloud resources.

Google Cloud-wide

Google Cloud-wide organization policy constraints

The following organization policy constraints apply across Google Cloud.

Organization policy constraint

Description

gcp.resourceLocations

Set to the following locations in the allowedValues list:

us-central1
us-central2
us-east4
us-east1
us-west1
us-west4
us-west3
us-west2
us-south1
us-east5

This value restricts creation of new resources to the selected values. When set, no resources can be created in any other regions, multi-regions, or locations outside of the selection. See Resource locations supported services for a list of resources that can restricted by the Resource Locations organization policy constraint, as some resources may be out of scope and unrestrictable.

Changing this value by making it less restrictive potentially undermines data residency by allowing data to be created or stored outside of a compliant data boundary.

gcp.restrictServiceUsage

Set to allow all supported products and API endpoints .

Determines which services can be used by restricting runtime access to their resources. For more information, see Restricting resource usage .

gcp.restrictTLSVersion

Set to deny the following TLS versions:

TLS_1_0
TLS_1_1

See the Restrict TLS versions page for more information.

BigQuery

Affected BigQuery features

Feature

Description

Enabling BigQuery on a new folder

BigQuery is supported, but it isn't automatically enabled when you create a new Assured Workloads folder due to an internal configuration process. This process normally finishes in ten minutes, but can take much longer in some circumstances. To check whether the process is finished and to enable BigQuery, complete following steps:

In the Google Cloud console, go to the Assured Workloads page.
Go to Assured Workloads
Select your new Assured Workloads folder from the list.
On the Folder Details page in the Allowed services section, click Review Available Updates .
In the Allowed services pane, review the services to be added to the Resource Usage Restriction organization policy for the folder. If BigQuery services are listed, click Allow Services to add them.

If BigQuery services are not listed, wait for the internal process to complete. If the services are not listed within 12 hours of folder creation, contact Cloud Customer Care .

After the enablement process is completed, you can use BigQuery in your Assured Workloads folder.

Gemini in BigQuery is not supported by Assured Workloads.

Unsupported features

The following BigQuery features are not supported and should not be used in the BigQuery CLI. It is your responsibility not to use them in BigQuery for Assured Workloads.

Interaction with remote data sources
Externally-trained BQML models are not supported. Internally-trained BQML models are supported.
Dynamic data masking
GDrive export
Remote functions
Saved queries
Workflow scheduling
For BigQuery Studio, notebooks are unsupported.
Gemini in BigQuery is not supported.

BigQuery CLI

The BigQuery CLI is supported.

Google Cloud SDK

You must use Google Cloud SDK version 403.0.0 or newer to maintain data regionalization guarantees for technical data. To verify your current Google Cloud SDK version, run gcloud --version and then gcloud components update to update to the newest version.

Administrator controls

BigQuery will disable unsupported APIs but administrators with sufficient permissions to create an Assured Workloads folder can enable an unsupported API. If this occurs, you will be notified of potential non-compliance through the Assured Workloads monitoring dashboard .

Loading data

BigQuery Data Transfer Service connectors for Google Software as a Service (SaaS) apps, external cloud storage providers, and data warehouses are not supported. It is your responsibility not to use BigQuery Data Transfer Service connectors for US Data Boundary and Support workloads.

Third-party transfers

BigQuery does not verify support for third-party transfers for the BigQuery Data Transfer Service. It is your responsibility to verify support when using any third-party transfer for the BigQuery Data Transfer Service.

Non-compliant BQML models

Externally-trained BQML models are not supported.

Query jobs

Query jobs should only be created within Assured Workloads folders.

Queries on datasets in other projects

BigQuery does not prevent Assured Workloads datasets from being queried from non-Assured Workloads projects. You should ensure that any query that has a read or a join on Assured Workloads data be placed in an Assured Workloads folder. You can specify a fully-qualified table name for their query result using projectname.dataset.table in the BigQuery CLI.

Cloud Logging

BigQuery utilizes Cloud Logging for some of your log data. You should disable your _default logging buckets or restrict _default buckets to in-scope regions to maintain compliance using the following command:

gcloud alpha logging settings update --organization=ORGANIZATION_ID --disable-default-sink

See Regionalize your logs for more information.

Compute Engine

Affected Compute Engine features

Feature Description

Guest environment It is possible for scripts, daemons, and binaries that are included with the guest environment to access unencrypted at-rest and in-use data. Depending on your VM configuration, updates to this software may be installed by default. See Guest environment for specific information about each package's contents, source code, and more.

These components help you meet data sovereignty through internal security controls and processes. However, if you want additional control, you can also curate your own images or agents and optionally use the compute.trustedImageProjects organization policy constraint.

See the Building a custom image page for more information.

OS policies in VM Manager Inline scripts and binary output files within the OS policy files are not encrypted using customer-managed encryption keys (CMEK). Therefore, don't include any sensitive information in these files. Alternatively, consider storing these scripts and output files in Cloud Storage buckets. For more information, see Example OS policies .

If you want to restrict the creation or modification of OS policy resources that use inline scripts or binary output files, enable the constraints/osconfig.restrictInlineScriptAndOutputFileUsage organization policy constraint.

For more information, see Constraints for OS Config .

Feature	Description
Guest environment	It is possible for scripts, daemons, and binaries that are included with the guest environment to access unencrypted at-rest and in-use data. Depending on your VM configuration, updates to this software may be installed by default. See Guest environment for specific information about each package's contents, source code, and more. These components help you meet data sovereignty through internal security controls and processes. However, if you want additional control, you can also curate your own images or agents and optionally use the `compute.trustedImageProjects` organization policy constraint. See the Building a custom image page for more information.
OS policies in VM Manager	Inline scripts and binary output files within the OS policy files are not encrypted using customer-managed encryption keys (CMEK). Therefore, don't include any sensitive information in these files. Alternatively, consider storing these scripts and output files in Cloud Storage buckets. For more information, see Example OS policies . If you want to restrict the creation or modification of OS policy resources that use inline scripts or binary output files, enable the `constraints/osconfig.restrictInlineScriptAndOutputFileUsage` organization policy constraint. For more information, see Constraints for OS Config .

Compute Engine organization policy constraints

Organization policy constraint	Description
`compute.disableGlobalCloudArmorPolicy`	Set to True . Disables the creation of new global Google Cloud Armor security policies , and the addition or modification of rules to existing global Google Cloud Armor security policies. This constraint doesn't restrict the removal of rules or the ability to remove or change the description and listing of global Google Cloud Armor security policies. Regional Google Cloud Armor security policies are unaffected by this constraint. All global and regional security policies that exist prior to the enforcement of this constraint remain in effect.
`compute.restrictNonConfidentialComputing`	(Optional) Value is not set. Set this value to provide additional defense-in-depth. See the Confidential VM documentation for more information.
`compute.trustedImageProjects`	(Optional) Value is not set. Set this value to provide additional defense-in-depth. Setting this value constrains image storage and disk instantiation to the specified list of projects. This value affects data sovereignty by preventing use of any unauthorized images or agents.

Cloud Logging

Affected Cloud Logging features

Feature	Description
Log sinks	Filters shouldn't contain Customer Data. Log sinks include filters which are stored as configuration. Don't create filters that contain Customer Data.
Live tailing log entries	Filters shouldn't contain Customer Data. A live tailing session includes a filter which is stored as configuration. Tailing logs doesn't store any log entry data itself, but can query and transmit data across regions. Don't create filters that contain Customer Data.

Google Cloud NetApp Volumes

Affected Google Cloud NetApp Volumes features

Feature	Description
Flex service level	The Flex service level is not available in the US Data Boundary and Support control package.

What's next

Learn how to create an Assured Workloads folder
Learn about the US Data Boundary control package
Understand Assured Workloads pricing