What is Atlassian Government Cloud?
Atlassian Government Cloud is a specialized, secure cloud platform tailored for U.S. government agencies, contractors, and partners needing high compliance standards.
It delivers core Atlassian tools like Jira, Confluence, and Jira Service Management in a FedRAMP Moderate-authorized environment with U.S.-only data residency on AWS us-east-1 (with us-west-2 redundancy).
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What does the CLOUD Act do?
The CLOUD Act, enacted in 2018, amends U.S. law to clarify how law enforcement accesses data stored by U.S. tech companies, regardless of server location.
It compels providers to disclose customer data on U.S. servers or abroad via warrants, while allowing challenges if foreign privacy laws conflict, and enables bilateral agreements with other nations for reciprocal access to combat serious crimes.
What is the difference between Jira Cloud and Jira Data Center?
Jira Cloud is a fully hosted SaaS solution managed by Atlassian, offering automatic scaling, built-in AI features like advanced automation and predictive insights, and zero infrastructure maintenance. Jira Data Center, by contrast, runs on-premises or in your own cloud infrastructure, providing active-active clustering for high availability, extensive customization, and full data control via multi-node setups.
Cloud prioritizes ease of upgrades and rapid feature releases but limits deep customizations, while Data Center excels in performance tuning and compliance for large enterprises yet requires IT overhead.
Note that Data Center faces end of life in March 2029 with no renewals after March 2028, lacking future support.
For secure on-premises continuity, Easy8 offers a self-hosted alternative with comparable scalability, encryption, and Jira migration tools.
What is the difference between GDPR and Cloud Act?
GDPR is an EU-wide privacy statute that limits what organisations may do with individuals’ personal data and how that data can be transferred outside the bloc.
The CLOUD Act is a U.S. criminal-procedure law that expands when U.S. authorities may compel cloud providers to hand over data—even if the bits sit in Europe.
One protects data subjects; the other empowers investigators. Because both reach across borders, they can collide, forcing companies to balance EU obligations to withhold data against U.S. orders to disclose it.
GDPR and the CLOUD Act pursue opposite goals—one to shield personal data, the other to expose it for legitimate policing—yet both claim global reach. Companies operating trans-Atlantically must design governance that can survive being pulled in both directions at once.
