Enabling India’s Regulated Industries to Innovate with Trust and Control
Empowering digital sovereignty for India’s public sector and highly regulated industries
India’s digital economy is accelerating at an unprecedented pace. Public enterprises, government entities, and regulated industries such as BFSI, healthcare, energy, and telecom are under constant pressure to modernise while ensuring strict compliance with data protection, operational transparency, and national security frameworks.
As cloud adoption rises across sectors, organisations must balance innovation with sovereignty, ensuring that their data, systems, and digital operations remain fully under national control.
To support this need, SAP introduced SAP Sovereign Cloud for India, a strategic offering that aligns cloud transformation with India’s regulatory, legal, and operational sovereignty requirements.
Additionally, this initiative empowers Indian enterprises to adopt advanced technologies such as AI, automation, and real-time analytics while ensuring that sensitive data stays within the country’s sovereign boundaries.
A New Foundation for Digital Sovereignty
SAP Sovereign Cloud supports the standards of the National Information Security Policy & Guidelines (NISPG). With this alignment, organisations can confidently adopt cloud-based innovation without compromising sovereign control.
The offering is centered around four key pillars of sovereignty:
1. Data Sovereignty
All sensitive information remains within India, complying with national security and data protection mandates. This includes storage, processing, and transmission of critical workloads.
2. Operational Sovereignty
Customers maintain oversight of all operational processes. This ensures transparency and alignment with industry-specific regulatory requirements, especially in sectors where operational control is non-negotiable.
3. Technical Sovereignty
The cloud architecture follows India-specific compliance controls. Organisations gain clarity on where their systems run, who manages them, and how the underlying infrastructure is governed.
4. Legal Sovereignty
All data, processes, and operations function under India’s legal framework. This eliminates cross-border legal exposure and enhances compliance with national governance policies.
Through these combined controls, SAP Sovereign Cloud enables India’s public and regulated sectors to build a secure, resilient, and future-ready digital foundation.
A Full-Stack Cloud Built for India
One of the biggest strengths of SAP Sovereign Cloud lies in its full-stack architecture, which integrates infrastructure, platform services, applications, and AI-driven analytics.
Moreover, by incorporating SAP’s global best practices and open-source foundations, the sovereign cloud provides:
- Flexibility to customise environments
- Scalable innovation to support long-term digital transformation
- Seamless integration with existing SAP and non-SAP landscapes
- High assurance for security, compliance, and governance
This makes it ideal for highly sensitive environments like defense, public sector undertakings, utilities, public transport, healthcare, and financial regulators.
Deployment Choices Designed for Compliance
Recognising the unique needs of India’s regulated industries, SAP Sovereign Cloud offers two deployment models:
1. SAP Sovereign Cloud On-Site
Hosted within the customer’s own data centre, offering maximum control over infrastructure and data. This is ideal for public enterprises and critical sectors that require full operational isolation.
2. Sovereign Cloud on Hyperscaler Infrastructure
Delivered through SAP’s partnership with Amazon Web Services (AWS). This model balances scalability and sovereignty by ensuring hyperscaler infrastructure is aligned with Indian compliance frameworks.
Both models support large-scale deployments while ensuring complete alignment with national and industry regulations.
Indian Teams Leading the Sovereign Cloud Mission
To ensure compliance with India’s sovereignty requirements, SAP has established dedicated teams in Bengaluru and Gurugram, staffed exclusively by Indian nationals.
These teams are responsible for:
- Managing sovereign cloud operations
- Ensuring compliance with Indian regulations
- Supporting customers with sovereign cloud adoption
- Safeguarding sensitive workloads and data
Additionally, with a roadmap to scale this team significantly over the next three years, SAP aims to deepen its sovereign cloud footprint across India.
Driving Innovation in Regulated Sectors
India’s regulated industries are now entering a phase where innovation must coexist with enhanced governance. SAP Sovereign Cloud supports organisations by enabling:
Secure AI Adoption
AI models and analytics can be run on sovereign infrastructure, ensuring sensitive data never leaves India.
Scalable Transformation
Organisations migrate mission-critical workloads to the cloud without compromising control, security, or compliance.
Operational Resilience
A sovereign architecture ensures high availability, disaster recovery, and predictable governance.
Faster Modernisation
Organisations modernise legacy systems with SAP’s digital core and AI capabilities, accelerating transformation programs.
As a result, highly regulated sectors can innovate confidently, accelerating India’s journey toward a self-reliant and technologically empowered future.
Global Expertise, Local Sovereignty
SAP already delivers sovereign cloud solutions across the U.S., Europe, and ten global regions. With a global investment commitment of €20 billion, SAP is focused on building the world’s leading sovereign cloud ecosystem.
Consequently, the launch of SAP Sovereign Cloud in India marks a major milestone, supporting the country’s ambition to become a secure, innovation-driven digital economy powered by world-class cloud infrastructure.
Conclusion
India’s regulated sectors are at a crucial inflection point where digital transformation must be carefully balanced with compliance, security, and sovereignty. SAP Sovereign Cloud provides the foundation needed to innovate with confidence, ensuring organisations modernise with cloud and AI while maintaining full control over their data, operations, and legal frameworks.
For public enterprises, government entities, and highly regulated industries, SAP Sovereign Cloud represents a strategic shift toward secure, future-ready digital ecosystems aligned with India’s sovereign requirements.