🔹 Feature: Microsoft Sovereign Private Cloud — A Customer-Operated Cloud Built on Azure Local
🔹 What It Does: A consistent Microsoft cloud experience that runs entirely in your data center — built on Azure Local — for sovereign, regulated, and disconnected environments.
What It Is Giving You — Four Scenarios on One Foundation
✅ Azure Local — Infrastructure Foundation: Provides compute, storage, networking, and lifecycle management. Run workloads as VMs or on AKS Arc-enabled clusters. Supports connected hybrid management or fully disconnected, air-gapped deployments — no Microsoft data center required, even for the control plane.
✅ Microsoft 365 Local — Productivity Suite: Run Exchange Server, SharePoint Server, and Skype for Business Server on Azure Local infrastructure that you own and control. Unified management via an Azure-consistent control plane. Operates in hybrid or fully disconnected modes, keeping all email and collaboration data locally.
✅ GitHub Enterprise Local (Preview) — Developer Platform: Deploy GitHub Enterprise Server as a prebuilt virtual appliance on Azure Local. All repositories, metadata, and CI/CD execution remain on-premises, delivering a GitHub-consistent developer experience for government, defense, finance, healthcare, and critical infrastructure.
✅ AI Suite — Foundry Local on Azure Local: Bring AI to your data, not the other way around. Run AI models entirely within Azure Local — model inference, document RAG, multimedia analysis — with no data leaving the building. Includes Model-as-a-Service (MaaS) and integrates with Arc-enabled Kubernetes for cloud-native AI workflows.
🤝 Multitenant Support — For Service Providers: Supports both single-tenant and multitenant service-provider models with robust isolation: hypervisor-enforced separation, VNet-level network isolation, and Azure-consistent RBAC, Key Vault, and Policy. National partner clouds and regulated-industry providers can offer sovereign cloud services to multiple customers from shared infrastructure with auditable separation.
The Pattern Across All Four Scenarios
🔸 Data stays inside your data center — your hardware, your perimeter, your compliance.
🔸 Same Azure Portal, ARM, Azure Policy, and Key Vault experience as public cloud.
🔸 SAN support allows reuse of existing on-prem storage while scaling compute independently.
🔸 Scales from a single edge node to thousands of servers under one sovereign environment.
For banks, governments, defense, healthcare, and critical infrastructure — this delivers real cloud without any hyperscaler region involvement. 🚀
