ISC2 Certified Cloud Security Professional (CCSP) Practice Question
During a cloud data-discovery project aimed at meeting data-sovereignty requirements, a security engineer must verify the physical location of existing datasets already stored in a public-cloud service. Which of the following sources provides the most authoritative evidence of where each individual data object actually resides, without relying on inferred network paths or user activity?
Client IP addresses recorded in the application's access logs
Region or location metadata that the cloud provider associates with each bucket, container, or object
Geographical storage commitments stated in the provider's service-level agreement
Traceroute results from the corporate network to the cloud service endpoint
The cloud provider records a region attribute (sometimes called a data-residency or location tag) for every bucket, container, or object. This metadata is populated and managed by the provider's control plane and maps directly to a known physical datacenter region, giving the most reliable indication of where the data is stored. Access-log IP addresses and traceroute outputs only show the path between the client and a service endpoint; they do not prove the storage location. SLA or contractual statements describe intended geography but cannot confirm the location of a specific object at a given moment.
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