International Traffic in Arms Regulations (ITAR) control package
This page describes the set of controls that are applied on ITAR workloads in Assured Workloads. It provides detailed information about data residency, supported Google Cloud products and their API endpoints, and any applicable restrictions or limitations on those products. The following additional information applies to ITAR:
- Data residency: The ITAR control package sets data location controls to support US-only regions. See the Google Cloud-wide organization policy constraints section for more information.
- Support: Technical support services for ITAR workloads are available with Enhanced or Premium Cloud Customer Care subscriptions. ITAR workloads support cases are routed to US Persons located in the US. For more information, see Getting support.
- Pricing: The ITAR control package is included in Assured Workloads' Premium tier, which incurs an 20% additional charge. See Assured Workloads pricing for more information.
Prerequisites
To remain compliant as a user of the ITAR control package, ensure that you satisfy and adhere to the following prerequisites:
- Create an ITAR folder using Assured Workloads and deploy your ITAR workloads only in that folder.
- Only enable and use in-scope ITAR services for ITAR workloads.
- Don't change the default organization policy constraint values unless you understand and are willing to accept the data residency risks that might occur.
- When accessing the Google Cloud console for ITAR workloads,
you must use one of the following
Jurisdictional Google Cloud console
URLs:
- console.us.cloud.google.com
- console.us.cloud.google for federated identity users
- When connecting to Google Cloud service endpoints, you must use
regional endpoints for services that
offer them. In addition:
- When connecting to Google Cloud service endpoints from non-Google Cloud VMs —such as on-premises or other cloud providers' VMs— you must use one of the available private access options that support connections to non-Google Cloud VMs to route the non-Google Cloud traffic into Google Cloud.
- When connecting to Google Cloud service endpoints from Google Cloud VMs, you can use any of the available private access options.
- When connecting to Google Cloud VMs that have been exposed with external IP addresses, refer to Access APIs from VMs with external IP addresses.
- For all services used in an ITAR folder, don't store
technical data in the following user-defined or security configuration
information types:
- Error messages
- Console output
- Attribute data
- Service configuration data
- Network packet headers
- Resource identifiers
- Data labels
- Use only the specified regional or locational endpoints for services that offer them. See in-scope ITAR services for more information.
- Consider adopting the general security best practices provided in the Google Cloud security best practices center.
Supported products and API endpoints
Unless otherwise noted, users can access all supported products through the Google Cloud console. Restrictions or limitations that affect the features of a supported product, including those that are enforced through organization policy constraint settings, are listed in the following table.
If a product is not listed, that product is unsupported and has not met the control requirements for ITAR. Unsupported products are not recommended for use without due diligence and a thorough understanding of your responsibilities in the shared responsibility model. Before using an unsupported product, ensure that you are aware of and are willing to accept any associated risks involved, such as negative impacts to data residency or data sovereignty.
Supported product | ITAR-compliant API endpoints | Restrictions or limitations |
---|---|---|
Artifact Registry |
Regional API endpoints:
Locational API endpoints are not supported. Global API endpoints:
|
None |
BigQuery |
Regional API endpoints:
Locational API endpoints are not supported. Global API endpoints:
|
Affected features |
Certificate Authority Service |
Regional API endpoints are not supported. Locational API endpoints are not supported. Global API endpoints:
|
None |
Cloud Composer |
Regional API endpoints:
Locational API endpoints are not supported. Global API endpoints:
|
None |
Cloud DNS |
Regional API endpoints are not supported. Locational API endpoints are not supported. Global API endpoints:
|
Affected features |
Cloud External Key Manager (Cloud EKM) |
Regional API endpoints:
Locational API endpoints are not supported. Global API endpoints:
|
None |
Cloud HSM |
Regional API endpoints:
Locational API endpoints are not supported. Global API endpoints:
|
None |
Cloud Interconnect |
Regional API endpoints are not supported. Locational API endpoints are not supported. Global API endpoints:
|
Affected features |
Cloud Key Management Service (Cloud KMS) |
Regional API endpoints:
Locational API endpoints are not supported. Global API endpoints:
|
None |
Cloud Load Balancing |
Regional API endpoints are not supported. Locational API endpoints are not supported. Global API endpoints:
|
Affected features |
Cloud Logging |
Regional API endpoints:
Locational API endpoints are not supported. Global API endpoints:
|
Affected features |
Cloud Monitoring |
Regional API endpoints are not supported. Locational API endpoints are not supported. Global API endpoints:
|
Affected features |
Cloud NAT |
Regional API endpoints are not supported. Locational API endpoints are not supported. Global API endpoints:
|
Affected features |
Cloud Router |
Regional API endpoints are not supported. Locational API endpoints are not supported. Global API endpoints:
|
Affected features |
Cloud Run |
Regional API endpoints are not supported. Locational API endpoints are not supported. Global API endpoints:
|
Affected features |
Cloud SQL |
Regional API endpoints are not supported. Locational API endpoints are not supported. Global API endpoints:
|
Affected features |
Cloud Storage |
Regional API endpoints:
Locational API endpoints are not supported. Global API endpoints:
|
Affected features |
Cloud VPN |
Regional API endpoints are not supported. Locational API endpoints are not supported. Global API endpoints:
|
Affected features |
Compute Engine |
Regional API endpoints are not supported. Locational API endpoints are not supported. Global API endpoints:
|
Affected features and organization policy constraints |
Dataflow |
Regional API endpoints:
Locational API endpoints are not supported. Global API endpoints:
|
None |
Dataproc |
Regional API endpoints:
Locational API endpoints are not supported. Global API endpoints:
|
None |
Filestore |
Regional API endpoints are not supported. Locational API endpoints are not supported. Global API endpoints:
|
None |
Google Kubernetes Engine |
Regional API endpoints are not supported. Locational API endpoints are not supported. Global API endpoints:
|
Affected features and organization policy constraints |
Identity and Access Management (IAM) |
Regional API endpoints are not supported. Locational API endpoints are not supported. Global API endpoints:
|
None |
Identity-Aware Proxy (IAP) |
Regional API endpoints are not supported. Locational API endpoints are not supported. Global API endpoints:
|
None |
Network Connectivity Center |
Regional API endpoints are not supported. Locational API endpoints are not supported. Global API endpoints:
|
Affected features |
Persistent Disk |
Regional API endpoints are not supported. Locational API endpoints are not supported. Global API endpoints:
|
None |
Pub/Sub |
Regional API endpoints:
Locational API endpoints are not supported. Global API endpoints:
|
None |
VPC Service Controls |
Regional API endpoints are not supported. Locational API endpoints are not supported. Global API endpoints:
|
None |
Virtual Private Cloud (VPC) |
Regional API endpoints are not supported. Locational API endpoints are not supported. Global API endpoints:
|
Affected features |
Restrictions and limitations
The following sections describe Google Cloud-wide or product-specific restrictions or limitations for features, including any organization policy constraints that are set by default on ITAR folders. Other applicable organization policy constraints —even if not set by default— can provide additional defense-in-depth to further protect your organization's Google Cloud resources.
Google Cloud-wide
Google Cloud-wide organization policy constraints
The following organization policy constraints apply across Google Cloud.
Organization policy constraint | Description |
---|---|
gcp.resourceLocations |
Set to the following locations in the allowedValues list:
|
gcp.restrictCmekCryptoKeyProjects |
Set to under:organizations/your-organization-name , which is your
Assured Workloads organization. You can further restrict this value by specifying a
project or folder.Limits the scope of approved folders or projects that can provide Cloud KMS keys for encrypting at-rest data using CMEK. This constraint prevents unapproved folders or projects from providing encryption keys, thus helping to guarantee data sovereignty for in-scope services' at-rest data. |
gcp.restrictNonCmekServices |
Set to a list of all in-scope
API service names, including:
Each listed service requires Customer-managed encryption keys (CMEK). CMEK allows that at-rest data is encrypted with a key managed by you, not Google's default encryption mechanisms. Changing this value by removing one or more in-scope services from the list may undermine data sovereignty, because new at-rest data will be automatically encrypted using Google's own keys instead of yours. Existing at-rest data will remain encrypted by the key you provided. |
gcp.restrictServiceUsage |
Set to allow all supported products and API endpoints. Determines which services can be enabled and used. For more information, see Restricting resource usage. |
gcp.restrictTLSVersion |
Set to deny the following TLS versions:
|
BigQuery
Affected BigQuery features
Feature | Description |
---|---|
Enabling BigQuery on a new folder | BigQuery is supported, but it isn't automatically enabled when you create a new
Assured Workloads folder due to an internal configuration process. This process normally
finishes in ten minutes, but can take much longer in some circumstances. To check whether the
process is finished and to enable BigQuery, complete following steps:
After the enablement process is completed, you can use BigQuery in your Assured Workloads folder. Gemini in BigQuery is not supported by Assured Workloads. |
Compliant BigQuery APIs | The following BigQuery APIs are ITAR-compliant: |
Regions | BigQuery is ITAR-compliant for all BigQuery US regions except the US multi-region. ITAR compliance cannot be guaranteed if a dataset is created in a US multi-region, non-US region, or non-US multi-region. It is your responsibility to specify an ITAR-compliant region when creating BigQuery datasets. |
Queries on ITAR datasets from non-ITAR projects | BigQuery does not prevent ITAR datasets from being queried from non-ITAR projects. You should ensure that any query that uses a read or a join operation on ITAR technical data be placed in an ITAR-compliant folder. |
Connections to external data sources | Google's compliance responsibility is limited to the BigQuery Connection API capability. It is your responsibility to ensure the compliance of the source products that are used with the BigQuery Connection API. |
Unsupported features | The following BigQuery features are not supported and should not be used in the
BigQuery CLI. It is your responsibility not to use them in BigQuery for
Assured Workloads.
|
BigQuery CLI | The BigQuery CLI is supported.
|
Google Cloud SDK | You must use Google Cloud SDK version 403.0.0 or newer to maintain data regionalization
guarantees for technical data. To verify your current Google Cloud SDK version, run
gcloud --version and then gcloud components update to update to
the newest version.
|
Administrator controls | BigQuery will disable unsupported APIs but administrators with sufficient permissions to create an Assured Workloads folder can enable an unsupported API. If this occurs, you will be notified of potential non-compliance through the Assured Workloads monitoring dashboard. |
Loading data | BigQuery Data Transfer Service connectors for Google Software as a Service (SaaS) apps, external cloud storage providers, and data warehouses are not supported. It is your responsibility not to use BigQuery Data Transfer Service connectors for ITAR workloads. |
Third-party transfers | BigQuery does not verify support for third-party transfers for the BigQuery Data Transfer Service. It is your responsibility to verify support when using any third-party transfer for the BigQuery Data Transfer Service. |
Non-compliant BQML models | Externally-trained BQML models are not supported. |
Query jobs | Query jobs should only be created within Assured Workloads folders. |
Queries on datasets in other projects | BigQuery does not prevent Assured Workloads datasets from being queried
from non-Assured Workloads projects. You should ensure that any query that has a
read or a join on Assured Workloads data be placed in an
Assured Workloads folder. You can specify a
fully-qualified table name
for their query result using projectname.dataset.table in the BigQuery
CLI.
|
Cloud Logging | BigQuery utilizes Cloud Logging for some of your log data. You should disable
your _default logging buckets or restrict _default buckets to
in-scope regions to maintain compliance using the following command:gcloud alpha logging settings update --organization=ORGANIZATION_ID --disable-default-sink
See Regionalize your logs for more information. |
Compute Engine
Affected Compute Engine features
Feature | Description |
---|---|
Suspending and resuming a VM instance | This feature is disabled. Suspending and resuming a VM instance requires persistent disk storage, and persistent disk storage used for storing the suspended VM state cannot currently be encrypted by using CMEK. See the gcp.restrictNonCmekServices organization policy
constraint in the section above to understand the data sovereignty and data residency
implications of enabling this feature.
|
Local SSDs | This feature is disabled. You will be unable to create an instance with Local SSDs because they currently cannot be encrypted by using CMEK. See the gcp.restrictNonCmekServices organization policy
constraint in the section above to understand the data sovereignty and data residency
implications of enabling this feature.
|
Google Cloud console | The following Compute Engine features are not available in the Google Cloud console. Use the
API or Google Cloud CLI instead: |
Bare Metal Solution VMs | It is your responsibility not to use Bare Metal Solution VMs (o2 VMs) because Bare Metal Solution VMs
are not compliant with ITAR.
|
Google Cloud VMware Engine VMs | It is your responsibility not to use Google Cloud VMware Engine VMs, as Google Cloud VMware Engine
VMs are not compliant with ITAR.
|
Creating a C3 VM instance | This feature is disabled. |
Using persistent disks or their snapshots without CMEK | You cannot use persistent disks or their snapshots unless they have been encrypted using
CMEK. |
Creating nested VMs or VMs that use nested virtualization | You cannot create nested VMs or VMs that use nested virtualization. This feature is disabled by the compute.disableNestedVirtualization organization
policy constraint.
|
Adding an instance group to a global load balancer | You cannot add an instance group to a global load balancer. This feature is disabled by the compute.disableGlobalLoadBalancing organization
policy constraint.
|
Routing requests to a multi-region external HTTPS load balancer | You cannot route requests to a multi-region external HTTPS load
balancer. This feature is disabled by the compute.restrictLoadBalancerCreationForTypes
organization policy constraint.
|
Sharing an SSD persistent disk in multi-writer mode | You cannot share an SSD persistent disk in multi-writer mode between VM instances. |
Suspending and resuming a VM instance | This feature is disabled. Suspending and resuming a VM instance requires persistent disk storage, and persistent disk storage used for storing the suspended VM state cannot be encrypted using CMEK. This feature is disabled by the gcp.restrictNonCmekServices organization policy
constraint.
|
Local SSDs | This feature is disabled. You will be unable to create an instance with Local SSDs because they cannot be encrypted using CMEK. This feature is disabled by the gcp.restrictNonCmekServices organization policy
constraint.
|
Guest environment | It is possible for scripts, daemons, and binaries that are included with the guest
environment to access unencrypted at-rest and in-use data. Depending on your VM
configuration, updates to this software may be installed by default. See
Guest environment for specific
information about each package's contents, source code, and more. These components help you meet data sovereignty through internal security controls and processes. However, if you want additional control, you can also curate your own images or agents and optionally use the compute.trustedImageProjects organization policy
constraint.
See the Building a custom image page for more information. |
instances.getSerialPortOutput()
|
This API is disabled; you will be unable to get serial port output from the specified
instance using this API. Change the compute.disableInstanceDataAccessApis organization policy constraint
value to False to enable this API. You can also enable and use the interactive serial
port by following the instructions in
Enabling access for a project.
|
instances.getScreenshot() |
This API is disabled; you will be unable to get a screenshot from the specified instance
using this API. Change the compute.disableInstanceDataAccessApis organization policy constraint
value to False to enable this API. You can also enable and use the interactive serial
port by following the instructions in
Enabling access for a project.
|
Compute Engine organization policy constraints
Organization policy constraint | Description |
---|---|
compute.enableComplianceMemoryProtection |
Set to True. Disables some internal diagnostic features to provide additional protection of memory contents when an infrastructure fault occurs. Changing this value may affect your workload's data residency or data sovereignty. |
compute.disableGlobalCloudArmorPolicy
| Set to True. Disables creating Google Cloud Armor security policies. |
compute.disableGlobalLoadBalancing |
Set to True. Disables creation of global load balancing products. Changing this value may affect your workload's data residency or data sovereignty. |
compute.disableGlobalSelfManagedSslCertificate |
Set to True. Disables creation of global self-managed SSL certificates. Changing this value may affect your workload's data residency or data sovereignty. |
compute.disableInstanceDataAccessApis
| Set to True. Globally disables the instances.getSerialPortOutput() and
instances.getScreenshot() APIs.Enabling this constraint prevents you from generating credentials on Windows Server VMs. If you need to manage a username and password on a Windows VM, do the following:
|
compute.disableNonFIPSMachineTypes
| Set to True. Disables creation of VM instance types that do not comply with FIPS requirements. |
compute.restrictNonConfidentialComputing |
(Optional) Value is not set. Set this value to provide additional defense-in-depth. See
the
Confidential VM documentation
for more information. |
compute.trustedImageProjects |
(Optional) Value is not set. Set this value to provide additional defense-in-depth.
Setting this value constrains image storage and disk instantiation to the specified list of projects. This value affects data sovereignty by preventing use of any unauthorized images or agents. |
Cloud DNS
Affected Cloud DNS features
Feature | Description |
---|---|
Google Cloud console | Cloud DNS features are not available in the Google Cloud console. Use the API or Google Cloud CLI instead. |
Google Kubernetes Engine
Affected Google Kubernetes Engine features
Feature | Description |
---|---|
Cluster resource restrictions | Ensure that your cluster configuration does not use resources for services that are
unsupported in the ITAR compliance program. For example, the following configuration is
invalid because it requires enabling or using an unsupported service:
set `binaryAuthorization.evaluationMode` to `enabled`
|
Google Kubernetes Engine organization policy constraints
Organization policy constraint | Description |
---|---|
container.restrictNoncompliantDiagnosticDataAccess |
Set to True. Disables aggregate analysis of kernel issues, which is required to maintain sovereign control of a workload. Changing this value may affect your workload's data residency or data sovereignty. |
Cloud Interconnect
Affected Cloud Interconnect features
Feature | Description |
---|---|
Google Cloud console | Cloud Interconnect features are not available in the Google Cloud console. Use the API or Google Cloud CLI instead. |
High-availability (HA) VPN | You must enable high-availability (HA) VPN functionality when using Cloud Interconnect with Cloud VPN. Additionally, you must adhere to the encryption and regionalization requirements listed in the Affected Cloud VPN features section. |
Cloud Load Balancing
Affected Cloud Load Balancing features
Feature | Description |
---|---|
Google Cloud console | Cloud Load Balancing features are not available in the Google Cloud console. Use the API or Google Cloud CLI instead. |
Regional load balancers | You must use only regional load balancers with ITAR. See the following pages for more
information about configuring regional load balancers: |
Cloud Logging
Affected Cloud Logging features
Feature | Description |
---|---|
Log sinks | Filters shouldn't contain Customer Data. Log sinks include filters which are stored as configuration. Don't create filters that contain Customer Data. |
Live tailing log entries | Filters shouldn't contain Customer Data. A live tailing session includes a filter which is stored as configuration. Tailing logs doesn't store any log entry data itself, but can query and transmit data across regions. Don't create filters that contain Customer Data. |
Log-based alerts | This feature is disabled. You cannot create log-based alerts in the Google Cloud console. |
Shortened URLs for Logs Explorer queries | This feature is disabled. You cannot create shortened URLs of queries in the Google Cloud console. |
Saving queries in Logs Explorer | This feature is disabled. You cannot save any queries in the Google Cloud console. |
Log Analytics using BigQuery | This feature is disabled. You cannot use the Log Analytics feature. |
SQL-based alerting policies | This feature is disabled. You cannot use the SQL-based alerting policies feature. |
Cloud Monitoring
Affected Cloud Monitoring features
Feature | Description |
---|---|
Synthetic Monitor | This feature is disabled. |
Uptime check | This feature is disabled. |
Log panel widgets in Dashboards | This feature is disabled. You cannot add a log panel to a dashboard. |
Error reporting panel widgets in Dashboards | This feature is disabled. You cannot add an error reporting panel to a dashboard. |
Filter in
EventAnnotation
for Dashboards
|
This feature is disabled. Filter of EventAnnotation
cannot be set in a dashboard.
|
SqlCondition
in alertPolicies
|
This feature is disabled. You cannot add a SqlCondition
to an
alertPolicy .
|
Cloud NAT
Affected Cloud NAT features
Feature | Description |
---|---|
Google Cloud console | Cloud NAT features are not available in the Google Cloud console. Use the API or Google Cloud CLI instead. |
Network Connectivity Center
Affected Network Connectivity Center features
Feature | Description |
---|---|
Google Cloud console | Network Connectivity Center features are not available in the Google Cloud console. Use the API or Google Cloud CLI instead. |
Pub/Sub
Pub/Sub organization policy constraints
Organization policy constraint | Description |
---|---|
pubsub.enforceInTransitRegions |
Set to True. Ensures that Customer Data transits only within the allowed regions specified in the message storage policy for the Pub/Sub topic. Changing this value may affect your workload's data residency or data sovereignty. |
Cloud Router
Affected Cloud Router features
Feature | Description |
---|---|
Google Cloud console | Cloud Router features are not available in the Google Cloud console. Use the API or Google Cloud CLI instead. |
Cloud Run
Affected Cloud Run features
Feature | Description |
---|---|
Unsupported features | The following Cloud Run features aren't supported: |
Cloud SQL
Affected Cloud SQL features
Feature | Description |
---|---|
Exporting to CSV | Exporting to CSV is not ITAR-compliant and shouldn't be used. This feature is disabled in the Google Cloud console. |
executeSql |
The executeSql method of the Cloud SQL API is not ITAR-compliant and
shouldn't be used. |
Cloud Storage
Affected Cloud Storage features
Feature | Description |
---|---|
Google Cloud console | To maintain ITAR compliance, it is your responsibility to use the Jurisdictional Google Cloud console. The Jurisdictional console prevents uploading and downloading Cloud Storage objects. To upload and download Cloud Storage objects, see the Compliant API endpoints row in this section. |
Compliant API endpoints | You must use one of the ITAR-compliant regional endpoints with Cloud Storage. See Cloud Storage regional endpoints and Cloud Storage locations for more information. |
Restrictions | You must use Cloud Storage regional endpoints to be ITAR-compliant. For more
information about Cloud Storage regional endpoints for ITAR, see
Cloud Storage regional endpoints. The following operations are not supported by regional endpoints. However, these operations don't carry Customer Data as defined in the data residency service terms. Therefore, you can use global endpoints for these operations as necessary without violating ITAR compliance: |
Copy and rewrite for objects | Copy and rewrite operations for objects are supported by regional endpoints if both the source and destination buckets are located in the region specified in the endpoint. However, you cannot use regional endpoints to copy or rewrite an object from one bucket to another if the buckets exist in different locations. It is possible to use global endpoints to copy or rewrite across locations, but we don't recommend it as it and may violate ITAR compliance. |
Virtual Private Cloud (VPC)
Affected VPC features
Feature | Description |
---|---|
Google Cloud console | VPC networking features are not available in the Google Cloud console. Use the API or Google Cloud CLI instead. |
Cloud VPN
Affected Cloud VPN features
Feature | Description |
---|---|
Google Cloud console | Cloud VPN features are not available in the Google Cloud console. Use the API or Google Cloud CLI instead. |
Encryption | You must use only FIPS 140-2 compliant ciphers when creating certificates and configuring
your IP security. See the
Supported IKE ciphers
page for more information about supported ciphers in Cloud VPN. For guidance about
selecting a cipher that conforms to FIPS 140-2 standards, see the
FIPS 140-2 Validated page. You cannot change an existing cipher in Google Cloud. Ensure that you configure your cipher on your third-party appliance that's used with Cloud VPN. |
VPN endpoints | You must use only Cloud VPN endpoints that are located in the US. Ensure that your VPN gateway is configured for use in a US region only. |
What's next
- Learn how to create an Assured Workloads folder
- Understand Assured Workloads pricing