Due to tightening industry regulations, a regional financial institution must retain complete physical custody of the servers that store customer PII and transaction data. Auditors have ruled out any solution that places hardware in a third-party facility. Which infrastructure deployment strategy would BEST satisfy this requirement while still allowing the IT team to manage the environment?
Leveraging Infrastructure as Code for automated provisioning
Utilizing a public cloud service provider
Deploying infrastructure on-premises within the organization's facilities
Adopting a hybrid cloud model combining on-site and cloud resources
Deploying the environment on-premises keeps all servers, storage and network equipment inside the organization's own facility. Because no third-party data center is involved, the institution maintains full physical custody of hardware and can demonstrate direct control to auditors. Public cloud and hybrid models place at least some infrastructure in external provider sites, and Infrastructure as Code merely automates provisioning; it does not dictate where the hardware resides.
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