Microsoft expands sovereign cloud tools across public and private cloud

Microsoft has expanded its sovereign cloud offerings with a Sovereign Control Panel in public preview, "clean rooms" for detecting log tampering, and fully disconnected private cloud operations. Foundry Local will be generally available in November on Azure Local, alongside confidential VMs and multi-tenancy support.

• Sovereign Control Panel in public preview shows where workloads run and if they meet sovereignty rules
• Foundry Local arrives in November on Azure Local with local AI inference and agentic retrieval
• Azure Local gains confidential VMs with hardware-encrypted memory and multi-tenancy support
• Launch coincided with CMA finding Microsoft meets conditions for strategic market status