Your RBI audit is in three weeks. The documentation is incomplete. Your compliance team is assembling it from four different vendors.
Every RBI Mandate Met. Every Cert-in Alert Answered
ESDS BFSI Community Cloud is India’s sovereign BFSI cloud infrastructure. Sovereign. RBI-compliant by architecture. MeitY empanelled. Operating since 2011. Used by 152 banks, 724 branches.
Your Regulator Is Not Waiting
Your Vendor Might Be.
Your DR vendor has not run a drill in six months. Your SOC escalation goes through a ticket at 2AM. Nobody tested the recovery.
Your CBS slowed on month-end batch. A ticket was opened. The queue had no context. By the time someone responded, the regulator already had questions
This is not a technology problem. It is an accountability problem. India's banking infrastructure needs a sovereign BFSI cloud that owns every layer. Not a shared responsibility matrix.
What changes when you move to ESDS
One Platform. One Team. Every Workload. Full Accountability.
Your Core Banking Cannot Go Down
One Platform.
Every Workload
One Team.
Full Accountability.
Regulator Asks. Answer Is Ready
You Run the Bank. We Run What the Bank Runs On.
Four Steps. No Surprises. No Dark Windows
Architecture Assessment
Not a sales conversation. A technical one. We map your CBS, your compliance obligations, your transaction volumes, your DR requirements and your current gaps before a single server is provisioned.
Migration Planning
Phased migration designed around your business calendar. Month-end blackouts respected. Parallel run periods built in. Your customers do not notice. Your operations team does not scramble.
Go-Live
CBS pre-integrated. SOC active from Day 1. Compliance documentation ready before go-live, not assembled after. Cooperative banks have gone live in weeks. Larger institutions run phased deployments with ESDS project ownership at every stage.
Managed Operations
The same team that designed your infrastructure manages it. 24×7. No handoff to a generic support pool. No rotating roster. One point of contact who knows your stack, your SLAs and your regulator’s requirements.
Built for Banking Every Capability. One Platform.
Sovereign BFSI Cloud India. Since 2011.
India’s first banking-specific community cloud. Since 2011. 450+ banks live. Go live in weeks not months. 25+ CBS integrations pre-built. PCI DSS, ISO 27001, SOC 1 and 2 certified. Not generic cloud with a compliance overlay. Banking infrastructure from the ground up
SOC for Banking
20% of cyberattacks target banking. 3B+ transactions monitored daily. 24×7 SOC built for financial services, not a shared queue with retail clients. Threat hunting. Incident response. RBI-aligned compliance reporting. Real analysts. Real response. Not dashboards
Banking DRaaS
RBI mandates DR. We make it affordable and audit-ready. Geo-redundant across 4 data centres. Near-zero RPO for core banking and transaction systems. Hot standby available. Patented auto-scaling keeps DR costs at 30% of primary infrastructure. Quarterly drill reports your auditors can sign off on.
Hosted Payment Services
UPI does not sleep. Neither does our infrastructure. PCI DSS-compliant hosting for payment banks, digital wallets, UPI and blockchain workloads. Patented auto-scaling absorbs festive season and month-end surges without re-architecture.
SAP for Banking
150+ SAP clients. None migrated twice. S/4HANA and ECC hosting with full BASIS and HANA administration. Cross-platform migration from legacy banking stacks. The BFSI depth that generalist hosters do not carry.
Digital Lending Infrastructure
₹19.22 lakh crore disbursed. The infrastructure held. MUDRA Yojana, Standup India, PM SVANidhi and Udyami Mitra all run on ESDS sovereign infrastructure. Millions of loan applications processed without a systemic failure.
Every Type of Financial Institution. One Platform That Knows the Difference.
Your Institution. Your Specific Situation
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PSU & Commercial Banks
PSU trust is not claimed. It is demonstratedScale, compliance and public trust, simultaneously. Millions of daily transactions without exceptions. SAP HANA, DR, SOC, managed services under one SLA. SIDB’s national digital programs run here. When the RBI audits, the infrastructure has to answer. Ours always has.
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Cooperative Banks (DCCBs & UCBs)
450+ banks went digital. All digital. All here.You cannot afford a dedicated IT team and a compliance team and a DR vendor. You should not have to. ASP model removes the in-house IT burden entirely. 25+ CBS solutions pre-integrated. RBI Mission SAKSHAM compliant. Full digital transformation delivered in weeks, not quarters.
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Regional Rural Banks
Enterprise DR and SOC, at a cost structure RRBs can actually sustain.RBI-mandated DR at a cost structure RRBs can actually sustain. Community cloud economics make enterprise-grade DR and SOC viable without private infrastructure overhead. MUDRA platform integrated. Serving agricultural credit borrowers without the capital expenditure of a PSU bank.
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NBFCs & Fintechs
You will face transaction spikes you did not plan for. The platform will not flinchYour transaction spikes will arrive without warning. The platform will not flinch. Patented auto-scaling. DPDP-compliant data residency. Digital lending infrastructure already tested at national scale. Hundreds of NBFCs scaled here. None re-architected to absorb growth.
Every Mandate Met Before They Asked.
ESDS sovereign BFSI cloud India carries every certification your compliance team requires and every residency guarantee your regulator needs.
Why Not a Hyperscaler. Why Not a Generic Indian Cloud. Written as Your Board Will Ask It.
The ₹250 Crore Risk
Foreign cloud providers operating India regions through foreign corporate structures create DPDP and RBI compliance exposure up to ₹250 crore.
ESDS Answer : 100% Indian-owned. Clean residency. Day 1.
The Billing Reality
Year 1 discount. Year 2 shock. Egress charges, USD invoices, reserved instance lock-in.
ESDS Answer : ESDS bills in ₹. Pay for what you consume. No surprises.
The Sovereignty Risk
A foreign provider can be compelled to restrict your access. It has happened.
ESDS Answer : On ESDS, your infrastructure answers to Indian law. Access is yours. Always.
The Support Gap
A hyperscaler gives you a portal. When your CBS slows at 11PM, you are opening a ticket.
ESDS Answer : The team that built your solution. 24×7. Reachable.
The choice is not between cloud providers. It is between an RBI compliant cloud for banks and a compliance risk your board will eventually have to explain.
Tough Questions. Direct Answers.
What Your Procurement And Compliance Team Will Ask
What is the best sovereign BFSI cloud for RBI compliance in India?
A private cloud gives you hardware. Compliance overlays give you paperwork. ESDS BFSI Community Cloud gives you infrastructure that was designed for banking, CBS pre-integrated, RBI guidelines baked into architecture, SOC running before you go live. 450+ banks did not choose us because we were reasonable. They chose us because infrastructure designed for banking performs differently from infrastructure adapted for it.
We already have a DR vendor. Why would we move?
Ask your current vendor three questions: What is your actual RPO for core banking transactions? Have you run a DR drill with audit-ready documentation in the last 90 days? What happens to your DR costs when your primary scales? If any answer is unclear, that is your answer. ESDS DRaaS runs geo-redundant across 4 data centres with near-zero RPO, patented auto-scaling and drill reports your auditors can sign off on.
How do you handle a core banking failure at 2AM?
The same way we handle it at 2PM. Our SOC operates 24×7 with dedicated banking threat response, not a shared queue with retail clients. Incident response for core banking failures follows a pre-defined RBI-aligned protocol. Your relationship manager is reachable. Escalation does not go through a ticket system at 2AM.
Which cloud provider meets RBI data residency and DPDP requirements 4n India?
ESDS operates 100% Indian-owned infrastructure across Nashik, Mumbai, Bengaluru and Mohali data centres. Every byte stays in India. No data crosses international borders. No foreign parent company with jurisdiction over your data. DPDP Act compliant. MeitY empanelled. When your regulator asks, the answer is documented, not improvised.
How do I migrate from my current vendor to an RBI compliant cloud witho4t downtime?
We have absorbed migrations from legacy on-premise stacks, competing cloud vendors and implementation partners, without forcing a full restart. Our migration methodology maps your existing workloads, identifies risk points and transitions in phases. You do not go dark. Your customers do not notice.
What does onboarding actually look like for a bank our size?
It starts with an architecture conversation, not a sales deck. We map your CBS, your compliance requirements, your transaction volumes and your DR obligations before a single server is provisioned. Cooperative banks have gone live in weeks. Larger institutions run phased deployments with dedicated ESDS project ownership at every stage. You get one single point of contact who knows your infrastructure, not a rotating support team.
What happens to our costs as we scale?
They do not scale linearly and that is by design. Patented auto-scaling means you pay for capacity when you need it, not as a permanent overhead. Community cloud economics distribute infrastructure costs across institutions. As you scale, you pay for capacity, not permanent overhead. That is the structural advantage of the model, not a pricing exception.
What if our CBS vendor is not on your integration list?
We currently pre-integrate with 25+ Core Banking Solutions. If yours is not on the list, we have built custom integrations before and will assess feasibility before onboarding, not after. We do not oversell compatibility.
How do you handle regulatory changes mid-contract?
We track RBI, SEBI, IRDAI and MeitY circulars as they are issued. When a new mandate affects your infrastructure. Encryption standards, audit trails, data localization. We initiate the compliance update. You are not responsible for monitoring regulatory change. We are.
Who owns the relationship after the contract is signed?
The same team that sold it. No handoff to a generic account management pool. Your architect, your compliance contact, your escalation path, consistent from day one. Our retention reflects this. We do not win relationships on price. We keep them on performance.