The addition of the new solution will give public sector customers more control over their data and better transparency to the governance and operational processes of the cloud, said Microsoft Cloud for industry and global expansion corporate vice president Corey Sanders
The Microsoft Cloud for Sovereignty solution is being built on the Microsoft public cloud. (Credit: Tawanda Razika from Pixabay)
Microsoft has unveiled Microsoft Cloud for Sovereignty, a new solution for public sector customers to help them build and digitally transform workloads in the Microsoft Cloud.
The new solution is said to simultaneously ensure compliance, security, and fulfillment of policy requirements.
According to Microsoft Cloud for industry and global expansion corporate vice president Corey Sanders, the addition of the new solution will give public sector customers increased control over their data and greater transparency to the governance and operational processes of the cloud.
Being built on the Microsoft public cloud, the Microsoft Cloud for Sovereignty solution is expected to speed up digital transformation while providing a personalised experience that will adhere to the requirements of the government.
Sanders said: “Government customers will have the power of the public cloud, addressing low cost, agility and scale expectations, with the full breadth of capabilities like modern developer services, agile infrastructure, secure DevOps, open-source platforms, modern collaboration and low-code development.”
Customers of Microsoft Cloud for Sovereignty are also expected to continue getting benefits from Microsoft’s global security signals, which are claimed to daily analyse more than 24 trillion signals for detecting and helping in protection against local attacks.
Sanders said that the foundation of the new solution will begin with Microsoft Azure regional datacentres. With Microsoft Cloud for Sovereignty, Microsoft is expected to offer capabilities that will give additional layers to customers for protecting and encrypting data that is sensitive.
For streamlining the complexity of the range of data classification requirements, Microsoft Cloud for Sovereignty will feature a Sovereign Landing Zone, which is a solution for simplifying the architecture.
Sovereign Landing Zone will also optimise deployment workflow and offer intelligent tools to arrange operations of multiple security services and policy controls in a streamlined way.
The Sovereign Landing Zone is being developed upon the enterprise scale Azure Landing Zone. By using Infrastructure-as-Code (IaC) and Policy-as-Code (PaC) capabilities built into Azure, Sovereign Landing Zone will recommend and ensure regulatory compliance, said Sanders.