Create a partner-managed folder

This page guides you through creating a new folder for Sovereign Controls by Partners. You must create this folder before creating any other resources that are intended for use with Sovereign Controls by Partners.

Before you begin

Before you can create a new folder, ensure that you've done the following:

Completed onboarding to Google Cloud and received an email instructing you to create a partner-managed folder.
Ensure that you understand the Restrictions and limitations that are associated with Sovereign Controls by Partners.

Create a new folder

In the Google Cloud console, go to the Assured Workloads page.
Go to Assured Workloads
If prompted, select your organization.
Click CREATE to go to the Create an Assured Workloads folder page.
Note: Sovereign Controls by Partners is an Assured Workloads offering, and shares similar capabilities and features.
In the step to Add folder details:
- In Folder name, enter a unique name for the folder, such as aw-my-folder-name. The folder name must be a minimum of 4 characters in length and a maximum of 30, and can only contain letters, numbers, spaces, and hyphens.
  Tip: When you name your Assured Workloads folders for Sovereign Controls by Partners, consider the following:
  - To identify the folder as an Assured Workloads folder, include a prefix in its name (such as aw-). This identifier can help you locate the folder from a list of other resources. If you have existing Assured Workloads folders, consider using another naming convention to differentiate your Sovereign Controls by Partners folder from them.
  - Don't include sensitive data or personally identifiable information (PII) in the folder name.
- In Organization, select the organization in which to create your folder. This location can't be changed later.
- In Folder location, select the location in the resource hierarchy where the folder will be created. A Sovereign Controls by Partners folder can be created as a child of an organization or of another folder.
- Click Next.
In the step to Choose a control package option, select Sovereign Controls.
Select your partner-managed solution from the drop-down menu.
Select a sub-billing account if your partner created one for you.
In Select resource location, choose the location where resource creation and usage will be enforced by the folder's organization policy.
Review the details about your selections and click Next.
In the step to Configure additional settings, you must create a new project and a key ring for your Customer Managed Encryption Keys (CMEK). No keys are created during this step, as Sovereign Controls by Partners doesn't automatically create any cryptographic keys for you.
Note: Once your key management project has been created, complete the steps to create a coordinated external key. When you create a coordinated external key for Cloud EKM, note that manually created key versions aren't automatically set as the primary key version. To set it as a primary key, see Rotate a key.
Depending on which sovereign partner you've chosen, you may have an additional Manage partner permissions step. In this step, you can choose to grant your partner access to the following data:
- Monitoring: This includes permissions to view Assured Workloads monitoring information about your folder. This includes any unresolved or resolved compliance violations, and any exceptions you've granted for those violations.
- Access Transparency and emergency access logs: This includes permissions to view Access Transparency logs and emergency access logs for your folder.
- Access Approval information: This includes permissions to view Access Approval logs for your folder.
For more information about how these permissions are granted or revoked, see the Partner permissions section.
After you've made your selections, click Next.
In the step to Review and create folder, review the details about your new Sovereign Controls by Partners folder and ensure that they are correct. Then, click Create Folder.

After completing these steps, Sovereign Controls by Partners creates the following resources:

A Sovereign Controls by Partners folder, which enforces security controls on supported Google Cloud products to adhere with the your partner offering. These controls include setting an organization policy that restricts resource usage to only those supported products, and allows creating or using resources only in allowed locations.
A CMEK project that contains the configured CMEK key ring.
Note: Folder creation does not automatically create keys for you. After creating the folder, you must create an encryption key before adding any resources.

Partner permissions

If you choose to grant your partner access to Assured Workloads monitoring and access history data, you can revoke this access at any time. To grant or revoke access for all types of data, complete the following steps:

In the Google Cloud console, go to the Assured Workloads page.

Go to Assured Workloads
Click the name of your Sovereign Controls by Partners folder to view the folder's details.
From the Assured Workloads Folder Details page, click the Configure Partner Permissions button in the info Partner permissions section.
In the Configure partner permissions panel, select the checkboxes to grant or revoke permission for each type of data, and then click Save.

Your partner's access to this data will be granted or revoked depending on your selections.

Monitoring

To enable partner access to your folder's Assured Workloads monitoring data, an Identity and Access Management (IAM) role is granted to the Cloud Controls Partner Service Agent. Like all service agents, the Cloud Controls Partner Service Agent is a Google-managed service account, and it acts on behalf of Sovereign Controls by Partners. It is visible in the IAM policy for your Sovereign Controls by Partners folder, and uses the following email format, where FOLDER_ID is the ID of that folder:

service-folder-[FOLDER_ID]@gcp-sa-cloudcontrolspartner.iam.gserviceaccount.com

The service agent is granted the Cloud Controls Partner Monitoring Service Agent (roles/cloudcontrolspartner.monitoringServiceAgent) IAM role on your folder. See the IAM reference for more information about this role and its permissions.

Next steps

Understand restrictions and limitations in Sovereign Controls by Partners
Learn how to configure partner-managed KMS