Hint of the Month - October 2025

What is the purpose of Sovereign Cloud?

 

 

The term Sovereign Cloud refers to the special purpose cloud that serves for higher standard security, and regulatory compliant data protection and access control rules and mechanisms. The target use of such sort of cloud is dealing with sensitive data like medical and financial records of individuals. Data management and access control need to be compliant with the regulations applicable in the territory where the hosting data centers reside or where the data originated from, depending on the requirements of each territory. In order to achieve this level of compliance, cloud service providers need to apply measures like data encryption, backup and disaster recovery plans, and identity and access management. Businesses and governmental entities using this sort of cloud services usually adopt hybrid cloud model, integrating on-premises infrastructure with the cloud resources, for more control and protection.