Sources: Oracle leads the race to sell "air-gapped" cloud services to Japan that the US says are key to secure intelligence sharing between Tokyo and its allies
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Air-gapped national clouds are becoming a geopolitical requirement, not a niche compliance feature. If you handle regulated or defense-adjacent workloads, expect procurement to start asking which vendors can support physically and logically isolated regions aligned with specific alliances.
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