India Works On "Sovereign Cloud", Consults Tech Giants Amazon, Google, Apple
The Indian government is consulting with major US tech firms like Google, Amazon, and Apple to develop a sovereign cloud framework for government data. The initiative aims to reduce reliance on foreign infrastructure while ensuring national security and data sovereignty.
Why it matters
This move reflects a growing global trend of digital nationalism, where countries seek to control their critical data infrastructure to protect national security.
India has begun consultations with global technology companies including Google, Amazon Web Services (AWS) and Apple as it works on a framework for a sovereign cloud for government data, people familiar with the matter said.AWS and Google Cloud are among the world's largest cloud service providers, while Apple is one of the world's largest technology companies with substantial cloud infrastructure. All three are US-based companies.India remains heavily dependent on US technology companies for cloud infrastructure. AWS, Microsoft Azure and Google Cloud are among the dominant providers serving Indian businesses and government-linked workloads, making control over critical infrastructure a central issue in the sovereign-cloud exercise.A preliminary proposal has been drawn up by the Ministry of Electronics and Information Technology (MeitY). The next step is consultation with government ministries, which is likely to begin shortly, the people familiar with the matter said.
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