SAP Sovereign Cloud is a portfolio of cloud infrastructure, platform services, and SAP applications for organizations with requirements governing data location, administrative access, and legal jurisdiction. It supports public-sector and regulated workloads through country-specific operating arrangements and deployment options.

Key Capabilities

Deployment choice: Organizations can deploy on supported hyperscaler infrastructure, SAP Cloud Infrastructure in Europe, or SAP Sovereign Cloud On-Site. The On-Site option places SAP-operated infrastructure in a customer-owned or customer-selected data center.
Data and administrative controls: Country-specific offerings keep data in designated locations and restrict sensitive administration and maintenance to approved personnel. Technical controls include locally hosted control planes and separation through encryption or dedicated infrastructure. Local or approved-country legal entities provide the governance framework.
SAP application environment: The portfolio supports SAP business applications and SAP Business Technology Platform, which provides application development, integration, and data services. Supported products and capabilities depend on the selected country and deployment model.
Managed operations: For SAP Cloud ERP Private, tailored option, documented services include capacity monitoring and planning, outage escalation, service reporting, and release planning. Service requests require customer approval; additional regulatory services must be specified in the managed-services contract.

Audience & Use Cases

SAP Sovereign Cloud serves government, defense, critical-infrastructure operators, and regulated enterprises running sensitive SAP workloads. Typical uses include moving enterprise resource planning systems into managed cloud environments, retaining infrastructure at a selected site, and adopting platform services within defined residency and operational boundaries.

Technical Specifications

SAP Cloud Infrastructure: Infrastructure-as-a-Service built and operated with open-source technologies in SAP’s data-center network, with data stored within the European Union.
On-Site operation: SAP operates the infrastructure at the selected customer location.
Availability: Deployment options, application coverage, certifications, and service responsibilities vary by country and contract.

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