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Sovereign Cloud Consultancy

At Smart Scale, we offer Specialized service focused on helping organizations particularly those in the public sector, healthcare, finance, and critical infrastructure design and operate cloud environments that strictly adhere to specific national or regional legal, operational, and security requirements.

Our capabilities

Compliance Strategy and Data Residency Design

Defining a comprehensive strategy that ensures full compliance with specific national or regional regulations (e.g., GDPR, local privacy acts, or industry-specific standards) by determining the optimal architecture (Private, Hybrid, or dedicated Public Cloud regions) to guarantee data residency (where the data is physically stored) and data sovereignty (which jurisdiction's laws apply to the data). This includes classifying sensitive data and auditing its entire lifecycle.

Operational and Technical Sovereignty Implementation

Establishing complete control over the operational environment, independent of foreign entities or providers by implementing strict access control measures, ensuring encryption keys are managed locally (often by the client or a trusted in-country partner), and verifying that all monitoring, maintenance, and support personnel meet local citizenship and security clearance requirements.

Secure Workload Portability and Geopolitical Resilience

Architecting the platform using open-source and non-proprietary technologies (like OpenShift/Kubernetes) to prevent vendor lock-in and ensure long-term digital independence by building resilience against geopolitical risks and potential foreign access. This includes designing hybrid models where critical data remains isolated and implementing robust Disaster Recovery (DR) capabilities managed entirely within the sovereign jurisdiction.

Sovereignty Roadmap and Compliance Strategy

We deliver a comprehensive consulting service to define the legal, risk, and technical requirements based on regional laws and critical data classification.

Data Classification Matrix, TCO for Sovereign Environments, Custom Compliance Framework, and Strategic Implementation Roadmap.

Secure Sovereign Platform Deployment

We offer an end-to-end engineering and deployment of a fully governed, locally controlled cloud environment, often leveraging private cloud or specialized hyperscaler sovereign zones.

Implemented local Identity and Access Management (IAM), customer-controlled Encryption Key Management, and Operational Sovereignty protocols for support personnel.

Hybrid Resilience and Autonomous Control

We offer solutions focused on securing the data lifecycle and ensuring business continuity against geopolitical threats, particularly in a hybrid environment.

Automated Policy-as-Code guardrails, Geographically Resilient DR (Disaster Recovery) setup, and certified Workload Portability between compliant zones.

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What solutions does Smart Scale provide for Sovereign Cloud adoption?

Smart Scale provides a strategic consulting and implementation service for Sovereign Cloud adoption, specifically designed for highly regulated entities (like government, finance, and healthcare) to ensure complete digital and operational sovereignty.

The solutions focus on transforming infrastructure to meet strict jurisdictional requirements while retaining cloud agility.

Who are our services for?

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What is our approach to Sovereign Cloud?

The solutions focus on transforming infrastructure to meet strict jurisdictional requirements while retaining cloud agility:

1. Compliance Strategy and Residency Blueprint

We provide the foundational consulting to define and meet the highest data protection standards. This solution involves:

Data Classification and Scoping: Auditing and classifying all sensitive data (PII, trade secrets, metadata) to determine which workloads require strict data residency and which can remain on the public cloud.
Sovereignty Roadmap Design: Creating a strategic plan to implement the necessary legal and technical controls to comply with specific regional laws (e.g., EU regulations, national security requirements).

2. Autonomous Operational Sovereignty

This solution ensures control over the cloud environment is maintained by trusted local entities, eliminating foreign influence.

Local Access and Key Management: Implementing stringent access restrictions based on geography or citizenship, and establishing customer-controlled Bring Your Own Key (BYOK) encryption mechanisms so that the cloud provider never has access to the master encryption keys.
Open-Source Platform Integration: Utilizing platforms like Red Hat OpenShift to ensure technological independence and avoid vendor lock-in, enabling deployment, management, and innovation under local operational control.

3. Resilience and Auditable Governance

We build in features that protect against geopolitical risks and ensure continuous compliance:

Geopolitical Resilience: Designing architectures that ensure business continuity and resilience against disruption by separating the data plane from the control plane and using hybrid approaches for secure failover.
Policy-as-Code Implementation: Translating complex regulatory rules into automated guardrails that continuously monitor and enforce compliance across the platform, providing immutable audit logs and transparent reporting for regulatory bodies.

Testimonies from our customers

Feedback from our customers on successful project delivery

“Working with Smart Scale Engineering has allowed my company to move to hybrid cloud leveraging AWS, local Datacenter and a Sovereign Cloud seamlessly while preserving application workload portability.”

Head of Digital, Software Provider in United Arab Emirates