India drafts sovereign cloud policy to underpin AI sovereignty

India's MeitY has formed a sovereign-cloud committee and consulted Google, AWS and Apple, while C-DAC issued an EoI for sovereign cloud services and a tender for sovereign AI cloud and data-centre infrastructure. True sovereignty requires control over physical infrastructure, encryption keys, operations and jurisdiction, not just local data residency.

• Sovereign-cloud committee formed in August; consultations with Google, AWS and Apple held in September
• C-DAC issued an EoI for sovereign cloud services and a tender for sovereign AI data centres
• Microsoft pitches its Hyderabad region as Sovereign Public Cloud; AWS runs workloads with Yotta in NIC data centres
• TCS, Airtel Cloud and Yotta already offer India-based sovereign cloud options