Overview

• Microsoft launched Microsoft Sovereign Cloud on June 16, offering Sovereign Public Cloud, Sovereign Private Cloud and National Partner Clouds across existing European datacenter regions.
• Data Guardian restricts remote access to European data systems to Microsoft personnel residing in Europe, requiring real-time approval and tamper-evident logging.
• External Key Management enables customers to tie Azure services to encryption keys held on-premises or by trusted third parties via hardware security modules.
• Regulated Environment Management provides a unified interface for configuring, deploying and monitoring all sovereign cloud features.
• Microsoft plans to increase its European datacenter capacity by 40% over the next two years to support growing demand for data sovereignty solutions.