A framework that determines data locality in multi-cloud deployments, aligning with regional storage choices.

A framework that determines data locality in multi-cloud deployments, aligning with regional storage choices.

• A. Availability Zone
• B. Region-Based Segmentation
• C. Data Zone
• D. NACLs

Answer: (B)

Data locality across multiple clouds is achieved by assigning data and workloads to specific geographic regions and making storage choices that match those regions. Region-based segmentation is the framework that best fits this idea because it organizes and routes data according to regional boundaries, ensuring it stays close to the storage and compute resources in the same region across clouds. This helps meet latency goals, governance, and data sovereignty by aligning data placement with each regional storage option available in the different cloud providers.

An availability zone is a fault-isolated location within a single provider’s region, not a cross-cloud framework for coordinating data locality. NACLs are network access controls and don’t address where data is stored or processed. Data Zone isn’t a standard term used for this purpose.