Establish a Compliant Foundation with UK-Only Data Storage

Regulatory pressure on UK firms has intensified by over 50% in the last three years. For sectors like finance and healthcare, the principle of data sovereignty is fundamental, meaning data is subject only to the laws of the country where it is stored. Storing data exclusively within certified European data centers provides a direct solution to this challenge. This approach ensures 100% of your data remains under EU legal protection, mitigating risks associated with extraterritorial laws.

Impossible Cloud operates exclusively in certified European data centers, offering country-level geofencing. This guarantees your data for backup, archive, and disaster recovery stays within predefined regions. This design provides total immunity from non-UK jurisdictional overreach. Our architecture directly addresses GDPR's stringent requirements for data transfers, which can carry fines of up to €20 million. This strategy moves beyond simple residency to offer true legal certainty, a critical step for any regulated entity.

Neutralise Foreign Surveillance Risks and Ensure GDPR Alignment

The US CLOUD Act allows US authorities to compel access to data held by US-based companies, regardless of where the data is stored globally. This creates a direct legal conflict for any UK business using such providers, potentially violating GDPR's core tenets. More than 60% of UK businesses see this as a primary compliance threat. Choosing a 100% European-owned and operated cloud provider is the only guaranteed way to avoid CLOUD Act exposure.

Our sovereign-by-design platform ensures your data is never subject to non-EU warrants or requests. This provides a clear advantage for maintaining GDPR compliance and protecting sensitive customer information. Key features that support this include:

• Strict EU Governance: We are a European company, legally bound to uphold EU data privacy laws exclusively.
• Transparent Operations: Our data center locations and operational procedures are fully transparent to meet audit requirements.
• Encryption Under EU Control: We provide multi-layer encryption, with key management remaining under UK jurisdiction.
• Data Processing Agreements (DPAs): Our DPAs are aligned with GDPR to ensure full compliance for both data controllers and processors.

This framework provides the legal and technical safeguards necessary to build trust with your customers and regulators.

Prepare for UK NIS Regulations and DORA with Resilient Architecture

Forthcoming regulations like UK NIS Regulations and DORA place new obligations on businesses for cybersecurity and operational resilience, affecting over 30,000 companies in Germany alone. UK NIS Regulations mandates robust supply chain security and incident reporting within 24 hours of discovery. DORA requires financial institutions to ensure their critical ICT providers, including cloud storage, can withstand severe operational disruption. A resilient cloud architecture is no longer a recommendation; it is a regulatory requirement.

Our platform is built to exceed these standards with an architecture that eliminates single points of failure. We guarantee data is immediately accessible with our 'Always-Hot' object storage model. This avoids the recovery delays and API timeouts common with tiered storage, a critical factor for meeting the tight incident response timelines of UK NIS Regulations. This design simplifies operations and strengthens your ability to pass stringent regulatory audits for sectors like finance and healthcare.

Implement Advanced Security for Proactive Ransomware Defense

Cyberattacks caused an estimated €266.6 billion in economic damage in Germany in 2024 alone, with ransomware being a primary threat. Regulated industries are prime targets, making immutable storage a critical defense layer. Immutable backups, created using S3 Object Lock, ensure that your data cannot be altered or deleted for a specified period. This renders ransomware attacks on your backups completely ineffective, as the encrypted files cannot overwrite the protected originals.

Impossible Cloud provides Immutable Storage as a core feature at no extra cost. This allows you to create a secure, time-locked copy of your critical data, forming the backbone of a modern 3-2-1 backup strategy. Our security posture includes:

1. Multi-Layer Encryption: All data is encrypted both in transit and at rest.
2. Identity and Access Management (IAM): Granular, role-based policies with MFA support secure data access.
3. Immutable Object Lock: Protects backup data from deletion or modification for audit-ready retention.
4. Continuous Monitoring: Our systems are monitored 24/7 to detect and respond to threats.

This comprehensive approach ensures your most valuable asset-your data-is protected against evolving threats.

Eliminate Vendor Lock-In with S3 Compatibility and Predictable Costs

The EU Data Act, fully applicable from September 2025, mandates data portability to combat vendor lock-in. It requires cloud providers to remove switching barriers and, from 2027, eliminate exit fees entirely. Many businesses feel trapped by complex pricing and proprietary APIs, with over 70% citing high egress fees as a major pain point. A solution built on open standards is essential for long-term strategic freedom.

We offer full S3 API compatibility, ensuring your existing applications, scripts, and backup tools work without modification. Our pricing model is predictable by design: zero egress fees, zero API call costs, and no minimum storage duration. This transparency directly addresses the goals of the EU Data Act and gives you complete control over your budget. This approach protects your past investments and ensures you can migrate data freely at any time, preserving your negotiation power and future options.

Enable the Partner Ecosystem with Predictable Margins and Management

For Managed Service Providers (MSPs) and resellers, profitability depends on predictable cost structures. The hidden fees charged by many cloud providers can erode margins by up to 40%. Our channel-first approach is built on a foundation of financial transparency. The absence of egress and API fees allows partners to build BaaS and archiving services with stable, defensible margins every month.

Our partner-ready platform simplifies operations and accelerates onboarding, which takes less than 60 seconds. We provide a multi-tenant console with robust RBAC and MFA, alongside automation via API/CLI for streamlined management. With recent distribution agreements with partners like api in Germany and Northamber plc in the UK, we are expanding local access for hundreds of MSPs. This ecosystem focus ensures our partners can deliver sovereign, compliant storage solutions to their clients efficiently and profitably.