Digital sovereignty
Microsoft Sovereign Cloud
Keep the power of the cloud and AI under your control.
OVERVIEW
Discover a sovereign cloud without compromise
Get a comprehensive set of sovereignty solutions across AI, productivity, security, and cloud in one platform.
Scenarios
Sovereignty that meets your needs
Microsoft Sovereign Cloud is designed to support the full spectrum of digital sovereignty needs—without compromise.
Microsoft Sovereign Cloud in Europe: Control, Compliance, and Continuity
Discover how Microsoft delivers sovereign cloud services in Europe through technical controls, operational governance, and legal commitments without limiting innovation or cloud capability.
Frequently asked questions
- Microsoft Sovereign Cloud is Microsoft’s unified sovereignty offering across the public cloud, private environments, and partner‑operated clouds. It brings together AI, productivity, security, and cloud services with capabilities that help organizations control where their data lives, how access is governed, and how cloud operations run. Organizations can use these capabilities to support digital sovereignty requirements without moving workloads to a separate cloud.
- Microsoft approaches digital sovereignty as capabilities built into the cloud platform rather than a separate cloud environment. Sovereignty requirements can be supported through a combination of technical, contractual, and operational measures that help organizations retain authority over their data and operations while continuing to benefit from global cloud scale, security, and innovation.
- Different workloads have different regulatory, operational, and risk requirements. Microsoft gives organizations the flexibility to select and configure the appropriate level of sovereignty controls for each workload, from standard cloud deployments to environments with stricter operational boundaries. These controls can evolve over time as regulations, risk posture, or business needs change.
- Organizations can help maintain control of their data through encryption, customer-managed keys, identity-based access policies, transparency tools, and audit logs. These capabilities define who can access data, how it is processed, and how access is monitored. Administrative access is subject to authorization and logging controls, enabling organizations to review and audit access.
- Data residency and compliance requirements vary by country, industry, and workload. Microsoft provides regional infrastructure and governance capabilities that help organizations define where data is stored and processed and apply controls that align with local laws and regulations. Organizations can use these capabilities to support compliance obligations while operating within a consistent cloud environment.
- Organizations can adopt AI while applying control over how data is processed and governed. Microsoft provides options to define data processing boundaries and apply governance controls to AI workloads. For applicable enterprise AI services, customer data is not used to train foundation models, consistent with Microsoft’s published AI commitments.
- Organizations need confidence that critical systems continue operating during disruptions, whether regulatory, geopolitical, or technical. Microsoft Sovereign Cloud supports resilience by giving organizations flexibility in how and where workloads run. Critical systems can be architected to operate across cloud and local environments, helping support availability objectives during disruptions while maintaining required levels of operational control.