Sovereign Cloud Landing Zone

The problem

Deciding to move to a sovereign European cloud is the easy part. The hard part is that a sovereign target is not a drop-in replacement. Identity, network topology, key management, policy enforcement, observability, and the operational tooling your teams rely on all have to be rebuilt, and they have to be rebuilt to a standard that satisfies an auditor rather than a demo.

Teams that treat this as a lift-and-shift discover in month four that they have recreated their old architecture with fewer managed services and no compliance story.

What we build

A landing zone: the automated, governed foundation your workloads land in.

• Tenancy, account, and project structure aligned to your organizational and regulatory boundaries

• Network architecture: segmentation, connectivity to your existing estate, egress control, private connectivity to the services you need

• Identity and access: integration with your identity provider, role model, privileged access controls, and a documented answer to who can technically access what

• Key management and encryption, with key custody arranged to meet your sovereignty requirement rather than the provider’s default

• Policy as code: guardrails enforced automatically, not documented and hoped for

• Observability and audit: logging, metrics, traces, and an audit trail that survives a regulatory question

• Kubernetes runtime foundation, if container workloads are in scope

• Everything as code, in your repositories, with a documented exit path

Sovereign targets we work with

We build on European sovereign providers including STACKIT, and on sovereign offerings of the major providers where that is the right fit for a given workload class. We are not a reseller, so the target recommendation follows the requirement, not a commission.

How it runs

Who it is for

Organizations that have decided on a sovereign target, whether from a tender requirement, a regulatory obligation, or a board decision, and need the foundation built to a standard that stands up to audit.

What happens next

Workload migration in waves, sequenced from your roadmap. Many clients run the first wave with us and subsequent waves with their own teams, or hand day-2 operations to us under a Platform Operations Partnership.

Frequently asked questions

We have not chosen a sovereign provider yet. Can we still start?

Yes, but start with the Cloud Sovereignty Readiness Assessment instead. It produces the workload classification and target recommendation the landing zone build depends on; starting the build before that decision usually means rebuilding parts of it.

Does the landing zone cover our existing hyperscaler estate?

The landing zone itself is built on the sovereign target. Connectivity to your existing estate — network, identity federation, shared services — is part of the design in weeks one and two, because almost every client runs hybrid for years.

Who operates the landing zone after the ten weeks?

Your team, using the runbooks and everything-as-code handover from week ten. If you prefer not to build that capacity now, day-2 operations can move to us under a Platform Operations Partnership.