Kyndryl Sovereignty Services with Microsoft Sovereign Cloud
Kyndryl Inc.
Many organizations struggle to make informed sovereignty decisions across data, operations, and AI in an increasingly complex regulatory and geopolitical environment—leading to increased risk, cost, and uncertainty.
Kyndryl Sovereignty Services provides a structured, Azure-aligned assessment to evaluate sovereignty exposure and define a clear, actionable roadmap for implementing compliant, resilient architectures on Microsoft Azure.
The result is accelerated decision-making and a practical path to deploy sovereignty-aligned workloads using Azure.
Key Value Points / Outcomes
- Make confident sovereignty decisions: Balance of jurisdiction, resilience, performance, and cost with structured guidance aligned to Microsoft Azure architectures and deployment models.
- Gain full-spectrum visibility and control: Identify risks across data, operations, technology dependencies, and AI workloads, with alignment to Azure governance and compliance capabilities.
- Enable trusted data and AI on Azure: Strengthen data protection, access control, and regulatory alignment using Azure-native security and governance frameworks.
- Accelerate time to implementation: Move from assessment to execution with a prioritized roadmap for deploying sovereignty-aligned workloads and services on Microsoft Azure.
What’s Included
This 6–8-week Sovereignty Readiness Assessment evaluates your current state and delivers a roadmap to implement sovereignty-aligned architectures on Microsoft Azure.
Scope includes:
- Definition of sovereignty objectives: Across data, operational, and technology domains aligned to regulatory and business requirements
- Current-state analysis
- Data residency, governance, and access controls
- Operational dependencies and support models
- Technology portability and vendor exposure
- Workload and architecture alignment on Azure: Define workload placement across Azure public, sovereign, and hybrid environments based on jurisdiction, resilience, and performance needs
- Gap analysis and prioritization: Risk scoring aligned to Azure governance, security, and compliance capabilities
- Phased implementation roadmap: Actionable plan with quick wins and longer-term initiatives aligned to Azure services and deployment models
How This Engagement Uses Microsoft Azure
Kyndryl leverages Microsoft Azure throughout the engagement to assess, design, and enable sovereignty-aligned environments:
- Evaluate workload placement across Azure public, sovereign, and hybrid cloud models
- Assess data residency, encryption, identity, and access using Azure-native capabilities
- Align architectures to Azure governance, compliance, and security frameworks
- Design Azure landing zones and target-state architectures
- Map current environments to Azure services to support compliant cloud adoption
Azure capabilities used to build the roadmap for sovereignty-aligned controls deployment include:
- Governance and policy controls
- Key management
- Identity and access management
- Data residency features
From Assessment to Implementation
This engagement provides a clear path to deploy and operate sovereignty-aligned solutions on Microsoft Azure, including:
- Implementing Azure-based architectures and landing zones
- Deploying governance, compliance, and security controls
- Migrating or modernizing workloads to Azure environments
- Establishing ongoing operational models and managed services
Kyndryl can extend support through implementation and managed services on Azure, enabling full lifecycle delivery from design through ongoing operations.
Why Kyndryl + Microsoft
Microsoft Azure delivers a sovereign-capable cloud foundation with built-in capabilities for data residency, compliance, and security across public, private, and partner cloud models.
Kyndryl combines this with deep expertise in advisory, design, and delivery—helping organizations translate sovereignty requirements into scalable, real-world Azure solutions.
Terms, conditions, duration, and pricing are custom to each engagement. Please contact us to discuss a solution that meets your business needs. Offer availability may be limited in some countries.