If you’re running a business in a regulated sector in India, picking a cloud provider isn’t just a technology decision anymore; it’s a compliance decision too. Swaraj Cloud, developed by ESDS, is built on Indian-owned infrastructure and operated within India.

It’s worth understanding why this category is getting so much attention right now. According to research firm Gartner, global spending on sovereign cloud infrastructure-as-a-service is projected to reach $80 billion in 2026, a year-on-year increase of roughly 35.6%, with governments and regulated industries identified as the primary buyers (Gartner, February 2026).

Sovereign Cloud Adoption Is Accelerating Worldwide

Sovereign cloud adoption is gaining momentum across regions as governments and regulated industries increasingly prioritize data residency, compliance, and digital sovereignty.

According to Gartner, the fastest growth in sovereign cloud IaaS spending in 2026 is expected in the following regions:

While China and North America are projected to remain the largest sovereign cloud markets by spending in 2026, Europe is expected to surpass North America by 2027, highlighting the growing strategic importance of sovereign cloud initiatives worldwide.

Source: Gartner, February 2026

Why Indian Enterprises Need a Sovereign Cloud

For Indian enterprises, cloud adoption is no longer just about scalability and cost efficiency. It is increasingly about ensuring data residency, meeting regulatory requirements, and maintaining greater control over critical workloads.

As sectors such as banking, healthcare, government, and BFSI navigate evolving compliance mandates, sovereign cloud is emerging as a strategic enabler for secure and compliant digital transformation.

This is where Swaraj Cloud comes in.

What Is Swaraj Cloud?

Swaraj Cloud is a cloud computing platform owned and operated by ESDS, running on infrastructure located in India. ESDS owns and operates the physical servers, storage, and networks behind it, all within Indian data centers. The platform is organised around five pillars: AI Intelligence, Scalability, Security, Compliance, and Data Sovereignty. One of its core features is a “prompt-to-production” workflow, delivered through its Solution Generator. You describe what you need, and Swaraj Cloud proposes an architecture, checks it against applicable compliance frameworks, generates a Bill of Materials with estimated indian pricing, and then deploys the live environment.

Why Regulation Matters Here

If you’re in banking, government, healthcare, or another regulated sector in India, you’re already working under the Digital Personal Data Protection (DPDP) Act, 2023, CERT-In’s breach reporting requirements, and guidelines from the Ministry of Electronics and Information Technology (MeitY) and the Reserve Bank of India (RBI). The DPDP Act alone carries penalties of up to ?250 crore for non-compliance, and MeitY’s Cloud Selection Framework requires empanelled, sovereign cloud infrastructure for specified categories of government workloads. Swaraj Cloud has been positioned to operate within this framework, with infrastructure, billing, and operations based in India.

What’s Actually in the Swaraj Cloud Platform

Here’s what Swaraj Cloud offers at launch, organised by category.

• Infrastructure-as-a-Service (IaaS): Built on a multi-hypervisor architecture supporting VMware, Hyper-V, and open-source virtualisation, so virtual machines can move between physical servers without downtime. You provision machines through a self-service portal or API, with a dashboard showing live CPU, memory, disk, and network status. Each customer’s environment runs in its own private, isolated network (a full VPC model), with elastic IPs, a managed NAT gateway, and DDoS protection capacity. A Terraform provider and SDK (Python, TypeScript, or Go) support infrastructure automation.
• AI/ML Platform (Enlight AIOps): This includes GPU-enabled virtual machines priced by the hour in INR, GPU observability monitoring, and managed Jupyter notebooks with GPU access, alongside experiment tracking and a model registry. It also covers model serving infrastructure for deploying trained models as APIs, fine-tuning-as-a-service using your own company data, built-in AI safety controls, ML pipeline orchestration, model monitoring with drift detection, model governance with an audit trail, and a set of pre-built industry models.
• Platform and Kubernetes Services: Kubernetes-as-a-Service lets you run containerised applications without managing the underlying infrastructure yourself, backed by an OCI-compliant container registry with geo-replication, automatic image security scanning, and support for cryptographically signed, tamper-verifiable images. An API Gateway-as-a-Service gives you a single managed entry point for application traffic, handling routing, access control, and rate limiting. The Managed Kubernetes Service adds a highly available control plane with encryption at rest, automatic node scaling, and a full audit history of cluster actions.
• Backup and Restore: Virtual machines are protected through agentless backup, meaning no software needs to be installed on the VM itself; backups are taken at the platform level. You can define your own backup schedules and retention periods, restore a VM to any previous backup point, and review activity through a dedicated console with an audit trail.
• Security Monitoring: This covers event and file integrity monitoring across your cloud environment, with security alerts mapped to the MITRE ATT&CK framework, vulnerability detection with severity-rated alerts, and integration between security incidents and the compliance dashboard, including flagging of incidents that may trigger CERT-In breach notification rules.
• Compliance-as-a-Service: Compliance monitoring for PCI DSS, NIST, and TSC (Trust Service Criteria) is built into the platform. Every resource you create on Swaraj Cloud is automatically assessed against applicable compliance frameworks, giving you a live compliance score, with audit-ready reports exportable on demand.
• Cloud Marketplace: You can browse and deploy cloud-ready software across categories, including security, AI, data platforms, networking, and DevOps tools, and vendors can list their own products with pricing, documentation, and one-click deployment.

Conclusion

Swaraj Cloud brings together India-owned infrastructure, India-based operations, and Indian denominated billing in a single platform, built to address the compliance requirements Indian enterprises in regulated sectors already have to meet.

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Prateek Singh is a Content Specialist at ESDS, bringing 4+ years of expertise in IT and content strategy. He focuses on Cloud Computing, SaaS, Web Development, and Programming, crafting content that bridges technical depth with business relevance. With 35+ published blogs on cloud adoption, cybersecurity, and digital transformation, Prateek helps position ESDS as a trusted voice for enterprises navigating the evolving IT landscape.

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