ESDS Software Solution has announced the launch of Swaraj Cloud, a sovereign cloud platform built and operated entirely on infrastructure located in India. The company said the platform is intended for enterprises, banks, government agencies, and other regulated industries that require cloud services with data residency under Indian jurisdiction.
According to ESDS, Swaraj Cloud runs on servers, storage, and networking infrastructure owned and operated by the company in Indian data centers. The platform combines infrastructure services, artificial intelligence (AI) capabilities, security tools, and developer services while keeping workloads and data within India.
The announcement comes as organizations continue adapting to regulatory requirements, including the Digital Personal Data Protection (DPDP) Act, 2023, the Ministry of Electronics and Information Technology (MeitY) Cloud Selection Framework for government workloads, and Reserve Bank of India (RBI) guidelines related to cloud adoption and data residency.
Focus on data sovereignty and compliance
ESDS said the platform is designed to help organizations meet data sovereignty requirements at the infrastructure level rather than relying on contractual arrangements with overseas cloud providers.
Speaking about the launch, Piyush Somani, Promoter, Managing Director, and Chairman of ESDS Software Solution Ltd., said India has made significant progress in building digital public infrastructure but continues to rely heavily on foreign cloud platforms and AI ecosystems. He said Swaraj Cloud was developed to support digital sovereignty by providing cloud and AI infrastructure governed under Indian law.
The company also stated that the platform includes more than 30 cloud services and over 80 integrated capabilities spanning infrastructure, AI, security, compliance, and application development.
AI-powered deployment automation
A key feature introduced with Swaraj Cloud is the Prompt-to-Production Solution Generator. ESDS said organizations can describe their infrastructure requirements using natural language or a guided interface. The platform then generates a proposed cloud architecture, maps it against applicable compliance requirements, creates a bill of materials with pricing in Indian rupees, and automatically deploys the environment.
According to the company, the deployment process covers requirement gathering, architecture recommendations, compliance validation, pricing, automated provisioning, and billing visibility within a single workflow.
Komal Somani, Whole-time Director at ESDS Software Solution Ltd., said the platform is intended to help regulated organizations avoid having to choose between cloud capabilities and compliance with sovereignty requirements.
Enterprise services available at launch
Beyond automated deployment, Swaraj Cloud includes GPU-enabled virtual machines for AI workloads, managed Jupyter Notebooks, machine learning operations (MLOps) tools, model governance, and AI safety controls. Infrastructure services include managed Kubernetes, software-defined networking, container registry services, virtual machine backup, and disaster recovery capabilities.
The platform also integrates security information and event management (SIEM), compliance monitoring against frameworks such as PCI DSS, NIST, and Trust Service Criteria (TSC), automated compliance reporting, and billing in Indian rupees with real-time usage monitoring.
ESDS said Swaraj Cloud is available immediately for government organizations, public sector undertakings (PSUs), banking, financial services and insurance (BFSI) institutions, and other regulated sectors. The company added that the platform is MeitY-empaneled and aligned with the DPDP Act.