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Sovereign Cloud

Many governments now view artificial intelligence as critical national infrastructure similar to power grids or transportation networks. To maintain technological independence and protect sensitive data, countries are investing in sovereign AI infrastructure.

Sovereign cloud providers deploy GPU infrastructure within national borders and provide services primarily to domestic organizations such as startups, enterprises, universities, and government agencies.

While these providers share similarities with Neoclouds, they must also satisfy additional regulatory and national security requirements.

Problem​

Sovereign cloud providers try to rent as much of the capacity on long-term reserved contracts as possible. For the unused capacity, they face many of the same operational challenges as Neoclouds, including maximizing GPU utilization and monetizing the excess capacity.

To achieve this, sovereign cloud provider may provide services such as:

  • On-demand IaaS instances
  • Managed Kubernetes platforms
  • AI development environments
  • Model serving platforms
  • GPU marketplace integration

However, sovereign cloud environments introduce additional requirements:

  • All software components and dependencies must operate within national borders
  • Some deployments require fully air-gapped environments
  • Infrastructure must satisfy strict security and multi-tenancy requirements
  • Data residency and regulatory policies must be enforced
  • Subsidized GPU pricing to local startups

Solution​

Armada Bridge is a GPU management platform that enables operators to deliver GPU infrastructure as Infrastructure-as-a-Service (IaaS), Platform-as-a-Service (PaaS), and AI-as-a-Service (AIaaS). Bridge provides secure multi-tenancy, lifecycle management, and operational automation across GPU clusters, allowing organizations to safely share expensive GPU infrastructure among multiple tenants while maximizing utilization and simplifying operations.

Bridge enables sovereign cloud providers to deploy secure AI infrastructure while maintaining full operational control. Bridge provides secure multi-tenancy across all infrastructure layers, including CPU, GPU, networking, storage, Infiniband, NVLink, and WAN connectivity.

Security capabilities include:

  • Strong tenant isolation
  • Policy-based infrastructure governance
  • Support for air-gapped deployments
  • Compliance-aligned infrastructure orchestration

Bridge also enables sovereign providers to deliver multiple service models including IaaS, PaaS, and AI platforms while maintaining national security controls. Features such as the application catalog enable operators to offer their preferred sovereign AI platform vendors to tenants. Operational capabilities such as observability, alerts, logs, and fault management reduce operational overhead and improve infrastructure reliability. Using Bridge, sovereign cloud providers can deploy production-ready AI infrastructure within weeks. Armada has extensive experience working with topologies deployed by NVIDIA Infrastructure Specialists (NVIS) and supporting both greenfield and brownfield GPU environments.

For operators that do not have a brick-and-mortar datacenter ready, Armada can also provide Modular Data Centers branded Armada Galleon.

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