CSP Vultr launches sovereign cloud services

GPU-based cloud services provider Vultr has launched a pair of new services designed to keep data within national borders to protect data sovereignty and maintain compliance.

“To address the growing need for countries to control their own data, and to reduce their reliance on a small number of large global tech companies, Vultr will now deploy sovereign clouds on demand for national governments around the world,” said J.J. Kardwell, CEO of Constant, Vultr’s parent company, in a statement.

Vultr Sovereign Cloud and Private Cloud span the company’s 32 data centers in six continents. All data, processing power, physical infrastructure, and governance are kept and handled within national boundaries and other in-country parameters.

The company is working with local telcos to provide infrastructure that reduces reliance on hyperscalers, where data sovereignty is harder to control, and delivers global data control and compliance without sacrificing scalability.

The company recently made a similar announcement called Vultr Cloud Inference, which provides global AI model deployment and AI inference capabilities on Vultr’s global infrastructure. Vultr Cloud Inference is built on a serverless architecture that makes it easy to deploy AI models regardless of the configuration of their training environment.

Keeping secret or sensitive data within national borders has become a growing concern among many nations, dating back a decade after Verizon and the NSA were caught spying on the German government. Then there’s the whole issue of regulatory compliance for sensitive data. All of this has nations building walls around their data centers to keep sensitive information within the country.

Vultr sites a survey by Accenture that found 50% of European CXOs list data sovereignty as a top issue when selecting cloud vendors, with more than a third are looking to move 25-75% of data, workloads, or assets to a sovereign cloud.

Vultr Sovereign Cloud and Private Cloud are designed for governments, research institutions, and enterprises, providing them with access to cloud-native infrastructure while ensuring that critical data, technology, and operations remain within national borders and comply with local regulations.

For security, Vultr uses air-gapped deployments (meaning systems are physically disconnected) and a dedicated control plane that is under the customer’s direct control, providing complete isolation of data and processing power from global cloud resources.

For enterprises, Vultr offers Vultr Container Registry with “train anywhere, scale everywhere” infrastructure, which enables models to be trained in one location but shared across multiple geographies, allowing customers to scale AI models on their own terms.

Vultr Sovereign Cloud and Private Cloud are available now.