Oktawave: PL-WAW
About PL-WAW
PL-WAW (Warsaw 1) is an Oktawave infrastructure location within the Warsaw metropolitan area, Poland, and forms part of the provider’s three-location domestic data processing footprint alongside PL-WAW (Warsaw 2) and PL-KRK (Krakow). Operated by Oktawave S.A., the site supports the company’s sovereign public cloud platform and is positioned in Poland’s primary business, financial, and government center, where enterprise, public-sector, and regulated workloads can benefit from proximity to the country’s largest network and economic hub.
From a market and infrastructure perspective, Warsaw is the central node of Poland’s digital economy and a practical interconnection point for national and regional services. Oktawave presents PL-WAW as part of a geographically distributed, Poland-based cloud architecture designed around availability, scalability, data sovereignty, and operational continuity. The platform is positioned for organizations that require cloud infrastructure hosted in Poland under EU legal and regulatory frameworks, with subregional design features that support high-availability deployment patterns.
⚙️ Facility Highlights
- Part of Oktawave’s three-location data processing footprint in Poland.
- Hosted in Tier 3 certified data center infrastructure, as stated in Oktawave’s cloud platform materials.
- Designed as part of a geographically distributed platform intended to support scalability and high availability.
- PL-1-WAW includes multiple subregions, supporting distribution of workloads within the Warsaw region.
- Oktawave documents all-flash storage in subregion PL-001 and hybrid or all-flash enterprise storage architectures in PL-002, PL-003, and PL-004.
- Storage architecture is described as redundant at controller level and RAID topology level.
- Data-network architecture for storage uses fully redundant FC16/32Gbps topology with at least two independent data paths between storage systems and initiators.
- Object storage is distributed across data nodes without a single storage point, with integrity verification and node-replacement capability described by Oktawave.
- Cloud Operations Support is available on a 24/7/365 basis for monitoring, administration, and incident response.
- Oktawave positions the platform for HA, backup, and disaster recovery procedures.
🔐 Security & Compliance
- Oktawave describes its architecture as multi-layered and its data centers as properly secured for civilian-facility standards.
- Physical presence in the data center is governed by procedural requirements including access lists and identification.
- ISO/IEC 27001 is included in Oktawave’s published certification set.
- ISO/IEC 27017 is included in Oktawave’s published certification set for cloud security controls.
- ISO/IEC 27018 is included in Oktawave’s published certification set for protection of personal data in cloud environments.
- ISO/IEC 22301 is included in Oktawave’s published certification set for business continuity management.
- CSA STAR alignment is publicly stated by Oktawave.
- PCI DSS compliance is publicly stated by Oktawave.
- The platform is positioned for processing in Poland under EU legal and regulatory frameworks, making it suitable for GDPR-relevant deployments.
🌐 Connectivity & Carrier Access
- PL-WAW (Warsaw 1) benefits from Warsaw’s role as Poland’s primary network, enterprise, and public-sector hub; this positioning supports low-latency access across the domestic market and regional connectivity into Central Europe. This geographic advantage is an inference based on the region’s market role and Oktawave’s Warsaw-based deployment footprint.
- Oktawave’s private network service supports logically isolated network zones, enabling customers to build a virtual data center architecture within the platform.
- Floating IP capability supports failover mechanisms and HA clusters distributed between Oktawave subregions.
- Load balancing services are available to distribute traffic across cloud server instances or instance groups.
- The region is suitable for hybrid IT, disaster recovery, and multi-site cloud architectures using Oktawave’s network, backup, and HA service model.
- Suitable for enterprises, public institutions, and regulated sectors using sovereign or Poland-hosted cloud environments.
💼 Who It Serves
- Enterprises and multinational organizations requiring cloud infrastructure hosted in Poland.
- Public institutions and regulated industries seeking Poland-based or sovereign cloud environments.
- Cloud-native application teams deploying scalable IaaS workloads.
- Organizations implementing backup, disaster recovery, and high-availability architectures across Oktawave regions and subregions.
Service providers and digital businesses needing managed cloud operations with 24/7/365 support