# Sovereign Cloud

The **Sovereign Cloud** setting allows you to ensure that your project uses only providers located within the 🇪🇺 European Union. This guarantees **data sovereignty** and ensures that your data is free from non-EU regulatory control.

> 💡 **Note:** This setting determines whether to consider only providers **based and regulated within the EU**. **Even when false**, our endpoints remain **GDPR compliant**.

## **Via Web Console**

1. Go to your [**Project Settings**](https://cortecs.ai/userArea/userProfile) → **Inference Section**.
2. Toggle **SovereignCloud ON** ✅ to filter the available providers and use **only EU-based providers**.

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3. Toggle **OFF** ❌ to make **all providers available** again.

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## **Via API**

You can also set this preference directly in your requests by including the `eu_native` parameter:

```json
{
  "model": "gpt-oss-120b",
  "messages": [...],
  "eu_native": true
}
```

* `true` ✅ → Only EU providers are used
* `false` ❌ → All providers are available (**GDPR compliance is still ensured**)

You can also update this parameter using the [**Project Config API**](https://docs.cortecs.ai/advanced-usage/project-configuration/update-project-config)

> 💡 This ensures that all team requests automatically follow the EU-only policy.&#x20;

## &#x20;Compliance Focus

* **Sovereignty**: EU-only routing ensures data is routed to EU-native providers.
* **Routing:** Likewise, the routing itself takes place on EU-native cloud infrastructure.
* **Data residency**: Even with `eu_native = false`, European data residency is ensured. But data might be processed by entities of non-EU companies (Microsoft, Google, AWS, ...)

The Sovereign Cloud setting gives your organization fine-grained **control over regulatory compliance**, while GDPR protections are always maintained.&#x20;


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