The Bill You Did Not Model
Your Year 1 discount expired. Egress charges appeared. Reserved instances locked you in. The invoice arrived in USD. Your rupee budget had no say.
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 Year 1 discount expired. Egress charges appeared. Reserved instances locked you in. The invoice arrived in USD. Your rupee budget had no say.
Your DPDP audit is six weeks away. Your legal team is asking where the data lives. Your cloud provider sent a shared responsibility matrix.
Your system slowed at month-end. A ticket was opened. The queue had no context. By the time someone responded, the CFO already had questions.
We map before we move. Your workloads. Your compliance. Your DR. Your cost. All mapped before a single server is provisioned.
Your calendar. Not ours. Month-end blackouts respected. Year-end freeze windows built in. Your business does not notice.
SOC live. Docs ready. Day 1. Not assembled after go-live. Not promised for later. Ready before you switch on.
Same team. Same context. Year one and year five. No handoff. No rotating roster. Named TAM. 24×7. Always the person who knows your stack.
Patented vertical auto-scaling adjusts CPU, RAM and bandwidth in real time without rebooting the VM. Pay-per-consume in ₹. Zero egress fees. No FX exposure. 600+ enterprises run production workloads here daily.
S/4 HANA, ECC and Business One hosting with full BASIS and HANA administration. Cross-platform migration from legacy stacks. SUSE partnership for SAP Linux. Typical migration 6 to 10 weeks. The SAP depth that generalist hosters do not carry.
Infrastructure, OS, database, SAP, security, DR and network, all under one SLA. No shared-responsibility gaps. Named Technical Account Manager. 24×7 India-based operations. One number to call at 2 AM, answered by someone who knows your stack.
Geo-redundant disaster recovery across 4 data centres. Patented auto-scaling keeps DR costs at 30% of primary. Near-zero RPO for critical systems. Regular DR drills with audit-ready reports. Cross-platform DR support including HP-UX to x86 migrations.
24×7 SOC monitoring. VTMScan vulnerability assessment. eNlight WAF. DDoS protection. PAM and SIEM. P1 incident response in 15 minutes. Compliance reporting for ISO, SOC and PCI. The same security posture we built for 450+ banks, now protecting enterprise workloads
GPU-as-a-Service for enterprise AI and ML workloads. LLM Factory for custom model development. Enlight AIOps for workload management. Sovereign AI infrastructure — no data leaves India, no foreign jurisdiction applies. The same team managing your SAP manages your models.
Your ERP runs production. Your IoT runs the line. Your supply chain runs across time zones. None of it can wait for a support ticket. ELGi Equipments and Surfa Coats run on ESDS. SAP HANA for manufacturing. IoT integration for Industry 4.0. Near-line DR for continuous operations. Infrastructure that runs shifts, not office hours.
Downtime is not a KPI problem. It is a patient safety problem. Span Healthcare has run life-critical SAP workloads on ESDS since 2019. Terumo India live on ESDS. 24×7 uptime. DPDP-compliant patient data residency. When the system cannot go down, it does not.
Smart grid, metering, SCADA and energy management at national scale. EESL and MSETCL run SAP on ESDS. 10M+ smart meters hosted. IoT data pipelines for energy transition. National grid data that answers to Indian law alone.
R&D data, batch processing, regulatory submissions and cold chain cannot tolerate jurisdictional ambiguity. GxP-ready architecture. SAP for pharma. Cold chain IoT monitoring. Under DPDP, data that cannot cross borders stays in India. By design, not by configuration.
Your festive season spike arrives without a warning email. The platform cannot flinch. Quest Retail, The Body Shop India, runs its full retail infrastructure on ESDS. Patented auto-scaling absorbs volume surges without re-architecture. No egress fees when traffic doubles overnight.
You are building on cloud. Your cloud should be sovereign. Multi-tenant SaaS architecture. API-driven infrastructure. DevOps-ready environments. SPOCHUB marketplace hosted on ESDS. Sovereign infrastructure for the companies building sovereign products.
Asset lifecycles run 20 to 30 years. Your infrastructure partner should still be here in 20. ERP, CRM, digital twins and IoT for facility management on sovereign cloud. Integrated building management systems. Long-term infrastructure for long-term assets.
Admission day. Exam day. Both arrive simultaneously. Both hit your platform at once. Patented auto-scaling handles the surge without re-architecture. Sovereign data residency for student records. Infrastructure built for a country of 1.4 billion learners
| Sr. no | Parameter | ESDS Enterprise Community Cloud | Typical Hyperscaler |
|---|---|---|---|
| 01 | Billing currency | ✓ ₹. Fixed, predictable, no FX risk. | ✗ USD. FX exposure every invoice cycle. |
| 02 | Compute pricing | ✓ Pay-per-consume. Billed for actual resource usage only. | ✗ Reserved instances. Commit upfront or pay premium on-demand. |
| 03 | Auto-scaling | ✓ Vertical. Within existing VM, no reboot, no application changes, billed per consumption. | ✗ Horizontal. New instances, application changes required, billed per instance. |
| 04 | Egress fees | ✓ No egress charges within India network. | ✗ Charged per GB transferred out. Often unbudgeted. |
| 05 | Managed services | ✓ Full-stack managed by ESDS. OS, DB, SAP BASIS, application layer, security. | ✗ Customer-managed above IaaS layer. Your team or a third party |
| 06 | Disaster recovery | ✓ Included. Geo-redundant across 4 Indian data centres. | ✗ Sold separately. Additional licensing, additional regions |
| 07 | Security and SOC | ✓ Included. 24×7 SOC, WAF, DDoS, anti-ransomware. | ✗ Sold separately. Additional licensing, additional billing per workload. |
| 08 | Support model | ✓ Same team that built your solution. 24×7, India-based, no ticket routing. | ✗ Tiered. Business or Enterprise support billed as percentage of spend. |
| 09 | Compliance documentation | ✓ Provided. Audit-ready documentation, compliance pack on request. | ✗ Self-managed. Your team compiles from shared responsibility model. |
| 10 | Data residency | ✓ 100% Indian-owned infrastructure. Clean residency. No foreign jurisdiction. | ✗ Region-level. Foreign corporate structure. DPDP risk. |
| 11 | Year 3 total cost | ✓ Predictable. No compounding surprises. | ✗ [Placeholder. Insert internal benchmark. Suggested: 1.8x Year 1 cost.] |
Three ways that matter to an enterprise. First, pricing in ₹, no FX exposure, no surprise bills when the rupee moves. Second, full-stack managed services where we own the entire stack under one SLA, not a shared-responsibility model where incidents become blame cycles. Third, 100% Indian-owned infrastructure with no foreign jurisdiction over your data. Hyperscalers give you global infrastructure. We give you sovereign infrastructure that performs. 600+ enterprises decided that distinction was worth acting on.
Ask your current provider two questions: Who manages your BASIS layer at 2 AM when your month-end batch fails? And what happens to your SAP cost when the dollar rate moves 5%? If both answers are uncomfortable, that is your answer. ESDS provides full BASIS and HANA administration, India-based 24×7 operations, and rupee pricing with zero FX exposure. 150+ SAP clients made this move. None migrated back.
It means we own the infrastructure, the OS, the database, the SAP layer, the security stack, the DR setup and the network — all under a single SLA. Not ‘we manage the VM and you manage everything above it.’ Not ‘security is a shared responsibility.’ When something fails at any layer, one team is accountable. Yours. Ours. Named. Reachable. The architecture and the accountability are the same.
Our patented vertical auto-scaling adjusts CPU, RAM and bandwidth in real time without rebooting the VM. Horizontal scaling on hyperscalers spins up new instances — useful for stateless workloads, but not for SAP or legacy enterprise systems that can’t simply clone themselves. Vertical scaling keeps the workload running and scales the resources around it. For SAP HANA, month-end batch processing, or festive-season retail spikes, this is the difference between a performance event and a business disruption.
40–70% is the range we observe across clients, driven by three levers: no egress fees (hyperscalers charge for every byte out), rupee pricing with no FX component, and right-sized infrastructure through pay-per-consume rather than reserved instances. We map your current spend against ESDS architecture before you commit. The TCO comparison is part of the free enterprise assessment, not a post-sales surprise.
Yes. We have absorbed migrations from on-premise infrastructure, hyperscaler environments and other managed service providers without forcing a full restart. Our migration methodology maps your existing workloads, identifies transition risk points and moves in phases. Your applications stay live. Your team manages the business, not the migration. We own the technical execution
ESDS operates 100% Indian-owned data centres across Nashik, Mumbai, Bengaluru and Mohali. No data crosses international borders. There is no foreign parent company with jurisdiction over your data under a foreign legal framework. DPDP Act compliant. MeitY empanelled. When your DPO or legal team asks, the answer is documented infrastructure architecture, not a contractual assurance that depends on another country’s courts.
It starts with an architecture conversation, not a product demo. We map your existing workloads, compliance requirements, DR obligations and cost structure before a single server is provisioned. Enterprise migrations run in phased deployments with dedicated ESDS project ownership at every stage. You get one point of contact who knows your infrastructure — from the first architecture call through go-live and beyond. We don’t hand off to a generic support queue after the contract is signed.
We track MeitY, DPDP, CERT-In and sector-specific regulations as they are issued. When a new mandate affects your infrastructure — encryption standards, audit trails, data classification requirements — we initiate the compliance update. You are not responsible for monitoring regulatory change across your infrastructure stack. We are. That is what full-stack managed means in practice.
The same team that designed the architecture. No handoff to a generic account management pool. No rotating support roster. Your Technical Account Manager, your escalation path, your compliance contact — consistent from day one. Our client retention reflects this. We don’t win enterprise relationships on pricing alone. We keep them on operations.