Shaping digital sovereignty without compromise

Sovereign Cloud solutions from Google Cloud and adesso

We resolve the conflict between innovative capability and legal requirements

Digital transformation and the use of artificial intelligence open up unprecedented growth opportunities for your business. With Google Cloud’s Sovereign Cloud offerings, you can unleash precisely this potential for innovation – whilst retaining absolute control over your sensitive data and infrastructure at all times.

Instead of having to choose between rapid technological progress and strict compliance requirements, you can combine the best of both worlds. Benefit from the full power, flexibility and scalability of the cloud to shape your future securely and agilely, without compromise.

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Innovation meets full control

Every business and every workload has its own specific requirements in terms of security, performance and regulation. With Sovereign Cloud solutions, you alone decide where your data is stored and who has access to it. This enables you to achieve not only data sovereignty but also complete operational sovereignty, whilst proactively protecting yourself against geopolitical or economic uncertainties. adesso supports you in selecting and implementing exactly the right level of control for your requirements.

An overview of the cloud options

Which model suits your business?

Google Cloud Public Cloud

The foundation for maximum flexibility, scalability and innovation. It offers global availability and meets the highest international and national security and data protection standards.

  • Maximum innovation potential & flexibility: Immediate, unrestricted access to Google’s entire cloud ecosystem, including state-of-the-art developer tools, GenAI capabilities and big data analytics.
  • Highest industry and confidentiality standards: Thanks to specific supplementary agreements such as the Secrecy Addendum (for strict confidentiality requirements) and the Health Addendum (for highly sensitive patient data, e.g. in accordance with Section 203 of the German Criminal Code (StGB)), even heavily regulated sectors are legally compliant.
  • Free choice of hosting location: You decide for yourself in which data centres your data is hosted – for example, directly in the German Google Cloud regions of Frankfurt or Berlin.
  • Comprehensive out-of-the-box compliance certifications for various sectors: Full compliance with international and national security standards (such as ISO/IEC 27001, 27017, 27018) as well as testing in accordance with the BSI’s C5 criteria catalogue (C5:2020).
  • Scalability & cost-efficiency: Dynamic scaling of resources across a global infrastructure for minimal latency and maximum availability, whilst offering optimal value for money.

Use cases: Ideal for standard enterprise workloads, global digital products and high-performance data analytics with direct access to the full Google Cloud ecosystem.

Google Cloud Data Boundary

Precise control over data residency and processing locations within defined geographical boundaries (e.g. the EU).

  • Guaranteed data residency: Precise definition and control to ensure that data remains exclusively within defined geographical boundaries (e.g. the EU).
  • Compliance with strict data protection requirements: Ideally suited for full compliance with the GDPR and local compliance requirements for regulated organisations.
  • Advanced key and access control: Use of proprietary encryption methods, allowing you to retain full control over the decryption of your data.
  • Exclusive EU support: Technical support and the handling of service requests are carried out exclusively by trained support staff within the European Union – ensuring maximum compliance and data security during incident response processes.
  • Maximum transparency: Detailed logging of all access events and data movements for easy verification by auditors and data protection officers.

Use Case: Essential for compliance with local data protection regulations (such as the GDPR) and for regulated sectors that require full transparency.

Google Cloud Dedicated

For the most stringent requirements regarding data sovereignty and operational autonomy. A physically and logically isolated infrastructure, set up across three availability zones in Berlin, is operated by an external partner – not by Google.

  • Strong partnership & local support: You utilise Google’s state-of-the-art cloud technology, safeguard your sovereignty through Thales, and have the implementation carried out by adesso.
  • Contractual sovereignty through a local partnership: You benefit from a purely European contractual partner and are protected against extraterritorial access by authorities from third countries.
  • High compliance & certifications: Designed to meet the strictest regulatory requirements in Europe and Germany (such as SecNumCloud 3.2 and C3A).
  • Reliability & scalability: Operates across three physically isolated availability zones in Berlin for maximum high availability, whilst ensuring full flexibility and developer productivity.

Use Case: Ideal for highly regulated markets, the public sector and organisations that require complete operational independence.

Google Distributed Cloud (Air-Gapped)

The ultimate solution for a fully isolated environment within your own data centre.

  • Complete physical and logical isolation: The environment is operated directly within your own data centre and runs completely separate from the public internet, with no connection whatsoever to external Google servers.
  • Maximum operational autonomy & KRITIS protection: Guarantees the uninterrupted continued operation of critical business processes, national infrastructure (KRITIS) or defence systems – even in the event of global network outages, crises or geopolitical tensions.
  • Uncompromising data sovereignty: Not a single byte of data or metadata leaves your own system boundaries. Unauthorised external access – including by cloud administrators – is systematically prevented.
  • Sovereign AI in your own data centre: Use of advanced GenAI models and ML tools directly on isolated hardware on-premises, without any risk of data leakage or IP loss.

Use Case: Ensures that critical national infrastructure or defence systems remain operational even in the event of global outages.

Sovereign AI: Unleashing artificial intelligence securely

A key driver of digital sovereignty is the secure use of artificial intelligence. With Sovereign AI, you can run advanced generative AI and large language models (such as Gemma or Mistral) locally on dedicated GPUs.

You train and use AI models strictly within your secure system boundaries. This allows you to reliably protect your intellectual property from data leakage, whilst rapidly accelerating your digital transformation.

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adesso – Your partner for cloud transformation

As an experienced Google Cloud implementation partner, we support you every step of the way – from strategic planning and selecting the right sovereignty model right through to a successful migration. Everything from a single source.

Do you have any questions?

Would you like to know how you can make your data more secure while benefiting from the advantages of the cloud or do you have questions about the Sovereign Cloud? We will be happy to advise you.