Right now, we’re taking the following step in strengthening our European Digital Commitments to empower our clients with larger alternative, extra management over their information privateness and probably the most strong digital resilience we now have ever supplied. Constructing on our 42-year historical past as an organization in Europe, we’re increasing our efforts with Microsoft Sovereign Cloud. This supply spans each public cloud and personal digital infrastructure, making certain our clients can select the suitable steadiness of management, compliance and functionality for his or her wants.
With this expanded providing we’re saying Knowledge Guardian for European operations, Exterior Key Administration for customer-controlled encryption, Regulated Atmosphere Administration for simplified configuration and Microsoft 365 Native for important productiveness providers in personal cloud environments.
This brings collectively complete productiveness, safety and cloud options designed to allow European organizations to develop, compete and lead on their very own phrases and with extra management than ever earlier than throughout Sovereign Public Cloud, Sovereign Non-public Cloud and Nationwide Associate Clouds.
Constructing on our expertise delivering sovereignty options that meet the wants of extremely regulated clients and authorities businesses, our Sovereign Public Cloud is an evolution and growth of the Microsoft Cloud for Sovereignty and can be supplied throughout all present European datacenter areas, for all European clients, throughout enterprise providers reminiscent of Microsoft Azure, Microsoft 365, Microsoft Safety and Energy Platform. Sovereign Public Cloud ensures buyer information stays in Europe, below European Legislation, with operations and entry managed by European personnel, and encryption is below full management of consumers. That is enabled for all buyer workloads operating in our European datacenter areas requiring no migration.
Microsoft’s new Sovereign Non-public Cloud will assist important collaboration, communication and virtualization providers workloads on Azure Native. This answer now integrates Microsoft 365 Native and our safety platform with Azure Native, offering constant capabilities for hybrid or air-gapped environments to satisfy resiliency and enterprise continuity necessities.
In France and Germany, our Nationwide Associate Clouds supply complete capabilities of Microsoft 365 and Microsoft Azure in an independently owned and operated setting. In France, we now have an settlement with Bleu, a three way partnership between Orange and Capgemini, for Bleu to function a “cloud de confiance” for the French public sector, important infrastructure suppliers and important providers suppliers that’s designed to satisfy SecNumCloud necessities. In Germany, we now have an settlement with Delos Cloud, an SAP subsidiary, for Delos Cloud to function a sovereign cloud for the German public sector that’s designed to satisfy the German authorities’s Cloud Platform Necessities.
Throughout our Sovereign Public Cloud, Sovereign Non-public Cloud and assist for Nationwide Associate Clouds, Microsoft Sovereign Cloud affords probably the most complete set of sovereignty options within the {industry} for built-in productiveness, safety and cloud.
Sovereign Public Cloud for all Microsoft Cloud clients in Europe
Many know-how suppliers have approached sovereignty as area of interest necessities for a novel set of consumers that require a particular deployment strategy that at occasions is at odds with the economics and innovation of public cloud techniques. This typically requires operating duplicate techniques and groups, migrating to separate environments and limiting entry to cutting-edge applied sciences like AI. Nevertheless, Microsoft’s Sovereign Public Cloud builds an evolving set of sovereign capabilities that may be configured to satisfy particular wants with out sacrificing performance or requiring migration to specialised datacenters. With Microsoft’s Sovereign Public Cloud at the moment in preview and set to be typically accessible in all European cloud areas later this yr, we are going to introduce new options and options that reinforce this imaginative and prescient.
Asserting Knowledge Guardian
Our EU Knowledge Boundary already supplies an industry-leading dedication to retailer and course of your information on infrastructure positioned in Europe. Knowledge Guardian will add an extra stage of assurance by making certain that solely Microsoft personnel residing in Europe management distant entry to those techniques. Knowledge Guardian provides extra human and technical oversight every time engineers exterior of Europe want entry. All distant entry by Microsoft engineers to the techniques that retailer and course of your information in Europe is permitted and monitored by European resident personnel in actual time and can be logged in a tamper-evident ledger.
Asserting Exterior Key Administration to increase Azure Managed HSM
Encryption below the total management of consumers supplies an extra assure of information safety. With exterior key administration, clients can join Azure to keys saved on their very own {Hardware} Safety Module (HSM) on-premises or hosted by a trusted third get together. We’re working with main HSM producers reminiscent of Futurex, Thales and Utimaco to make sure their assist.
Asserting Regulated Atmosphere Administration
The Regulated Atmosphere Administration service will enable clients to simply handle all these options in a single place (as an example, configuring Knowledge Guardian insurance policies or reviewing entry log entries). Regulated Atmosphere Administration can be on the heart of the shopper expertise for configuring, deploying and monitoring workloads in assist of sovereign operations. Collectively, these instruments can be on the heart of the shopper expertise for configuring, deploying and monitoring workloads within the Sovereign Public Cloud.
Sovereign Non-public Cloud with Azure Native and Microsoft 365 Native
Whereas strengthening sovereign controls in public cloud environments is important, we additionally perceive that some situations require sure workloads be run in a bodily setting below full buyer management to assist enterprise continuity danger mitigation. Azure Native delivers Microsoft cloud providers in buyer places, enabling organizations to satisfy particular information residency and sovereignty necessities. It consists of core Azure capabilities — reminiscent of compute, storage, networking and virtualization providers — whereas offering a constant administration and developer expertise. Azure Native is right for delivering providers nearer to the place information is generated or regulated, whether or not in-country, on-premises or in partner-operated datacenters. Microsoft’s Sovereign Non-public Cloud answer is in preview in the present day and can be typically accessible later this yr.
Asserting Microsoft 365 Native
Microsoft 365 Native supplies clients with extra alternative by bringing collectively Microsoft’s productiveness server software program into an Azure Native setting that may run completely in a buyer’s personal datacenter.
This supplies a simplified deployment and administration framework for organizations to run Microsoft’s trusted productiveness servers in environments they totally management. Constructed on our validated reference structure and powered by Azure Native, Microsoft 365 Native allows clients to deploy Microsoft productiveness workloads like Change Server and SharePoint Server in their very own datacenters or sovereign cloud environments — with full management on safety, compliance and governance.
Non-public Sovereign Cloud is designed for governments, important industries and controlled sectors that want to satisfy the best requirements of information residency, operational autonomy and disconnected entry.
Constructing a sovereign cloud and AI companion ecosystem for Europe
To assist European clients in implementing and working sovereign options, we’re additionally excited to preview a brand new Microsoft Sovereign Cloud specialization within the Microsoft AI Cloud Associate Program. This specialization will present our European clients the flexibility to establish Companions who’ve differentiated themselves based mostly on their demonstrated capabilities in supporting their Sovereign Cloud ambitions on Microsoft know-how. Our preview companions embrace Accenture, Arvato Programs, Atea, Atos, Crayon, Capgemini, Dell Applied sciences, IBM, Inspark, Infosys, Lenovo, Leonardo, NTT Knowledge, Orange, Telefonica and Vodafone.
“The launch of Microsoft Sovereign Cloud marks a pivotal second in empowering European establishments and industries with the management, compliance and innovation they should thrive in in the present day’s digital financial system,” stated Aiman Ezzat, CEO of Capgemini Group.
“As a shareholder of Bleu, we now have already arrange a Nationwide Associate Cloud in France with a view to ship Microsoft applied sciences in a sovereign setting that respects the French State necessities. With a long time of expertise in Microsoft applied sciences and deep experience in regulated sectors, we’re uniquely positioned to assist our purchasers harness the total energy of Microsoft’s sovereign private and non-private cloud options. Collectively, we’re enabling a trusted digital future for Europe.”
Delivering on our digital commitments to Europe
Collectively, Microsoft Sovereign Cloud is grounded in our European Digital Commitments and affords the most effective mixture of alternative, management and resilience for European clients. Microsoft is proud to supply the broadest set of sovereignty options accessible in the marketplace in the present day and we are going to continually search for new methods to make sure our European clients have the choices and assurances they should function with confidence.
In a time of geopolitical volatility, we’re dedicated to offering digital stability. With every step we take on this journey, we invite open dialogues with our clients, policymakers and regulators as we proceed to innovate.
