India's first sovereign cloud, built on the IBM Sovereign Cloud platform, with an Evidence Layer that is cryptographically verifiable. For the first time, sovereignty is not something you declare. It is something you prove. To any auditor. At any time. Without taking anybody's word for it.
For a long time, the sovereign cloud conversation asked only one question. Where does the data sit? That is necessary, but it is not enough. The harder questions are who runs the platform, whose hands the keys are in, whose law can reach in, and who can prove all of this. Without trust. With evidence. Hyper 7 was built to answer those questions.
Four things matter, if sovereignty is to mean what it says. Provability. Prevention. Privacy. Portability. We built the platform around them. We did not add them as a layer after the fact.
The Evidence Layer attests. Continuously. Where the workload runs. Who touched it. When configuration changed. Which controls were active at the moment of the audit. Signed. Verifiable. By any third party. We do not ask you to take our word for any of it.
The keys are held by you. Not by HyperNext. Not by IBM. Not by the host nation. Anchored in FIPS 140-3 Level 4 hardware. Compelled by a foreign jurisdiction or not, the keys remain where they should always have been. With you.
The control plane is operated by you. Identity, access, secrets, keys, logs, telemetry, all inside the sovereign boundary. No vendor in the middle. No data plane that quietly crosses a border on its way somewhere else.
Open standards throughout. Red Hat OpenShift, Red Hat Enterprise Linux, Red Hat AI, open APIs. Your workload remains portable. Across us. Across hyperscalers. To on-premises. Back to us. On your timeline, not ours.
The Evidence Layer is the feature that separates Hyper 7 from every cloud that calls itself sovereign by jurisdiction alone. Every operation that touches customer workloads is observed, attested, and recorded with cryptographic integrity. Compliance officers, regulators and customers query the Evidence Layer directly. The platform proves its own sovereignty.
Hyper 7 runs on IBM Sovereign Core, the same sovereign-by-design software stack that governments and regulated enterprises around the world have chosen for their highest-trust workloads. We bring it to India with HyperNext infrastructure underneath, Indian sovereign boundary controls around it, and the Evidence Layer on top.
The control plane runs inside the Indian jurisdictional boundary, operated by Indian-cleared personnel under customer authority. No remote operator. No call-home dependency. No external administrative reach.
Authentication, authorisation, secrets management and certificate authority all in-region. No federated trust to any external identity provider unless the customer explicitly configures it.
Customer-managed encryption keys held in hardware security modules certified to FIPS 140-3 Level 4, the highest commercially-available rating. Even HyperNext personnel cannot decrypt customer data.
Model training, inference and agentic workflows execute under sovereign authority. Full traceability of model versions, datasets, inference calls and agent decisions captured in the Evidence Layer.
Container orchestration on Red Hat OpenShift. Workload portability across cloud, on-premises and hybrid deployments without rewriting applications.
Pre-vetted catalogue of IBM, AMD, Cloudera, Dell, Elastic, Intel, Mistral, MongoDB, Palo Alto Networks and open-source services. Customers add their own approved internal software.
Hyper 7 offers SLA commitments that exceed standard sovereign cloud offerings in India. Every SLA is credit-backed, measured against the Evidence Layer's own attestations, and verifiable by the customer in real time. No marketing numbers. Numbers we will refund against.
There are workloads that cannot live just anywhere. Workloads where it matters who runs the platform. Where it matters whose law applies. Where it matters that the keys are held by you, and only by you. Hyper 7 was made for these workloads.
Core banking, payments, KYC, trading and risk analytics. AI for credit, fraud and onboarding. Every workload audit-ready against RBI, SEBI and IRDAI frameworks.
Citizen data platforms, inter-departmental analytics, national AI initiatives, and critical information infrastructure. Built to DPDP Act 2023 standards by design.
Electronic health records, genomic and clinical research, sovereign AI for diagnostics, and pharmaceutical R&D where IP protection is non-negotiable.
Defence R&D, aerospace, dual-use technology, energy and telecommunications. Cleared-personnel operations, export-controlled isolation, DoT-licensed environments.
"Sovereign" has become a marketing word. The chart below maps the actual sovereignty commitments offered by major cloud providers operating in India, against the same eight dimensions. The differences matter.
| Dimension | Hyper 7HyperNext, India | AWSMumbai & Hyderabad regions | Microsoft AzureCentral / South India | Google CloudDelhi & Mumbai regions | Local DC peersIndian providers |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Data residency | In-India, cryptographically attested | Region-bound, declared | Region-bound, declared | Region-bound, declared | In-India |
| Operator nationality | Indian-cleared personnel only | Global SRE pool | Global SRE pool | Global SRE pool | Indian operations |
| Customer key control (KYOK) | FIPS 140-3 L4 HSM | CloudHSM, BYOK | Azure Key Vault BYOK | Cloud HSM BYOK | Provider-managed |
| Foreign-law access risk | No foreign reach | US CLOUD Act exposure | US CLOUD Act exposure | US CLOUD Act exposure | Indian jurisdiction only |
| Continuous evidence layer | Cryptographic attestations, real-time | Annual SOC reports | Annual SOC reports | Annual SOC reports | Annual SOC reports |
| AI workload sovereignty | Model + inference fully traced | Bedrock models elsewhere | OpenAI dependency | Vertex models elsewhere | Infrastructure only |
| Open-standards portability | Red Hat OpenShift native | Proprietary APIs | Proprietary APIs | Anthos hybrid | Mixed |
| Indian regulator audit packs | RBI / SEBI / DPDP / CERT-In | Customer-assembled | Customer-assembled | Customer-assembled | Customer-assembled |
| Sovereign by design vs retrofitted | Sovereign by architecture | Sovereignty as policy | Sovereignty as policy | Sovereignty as policy | Sovereignty as locality |
Assessment based on publicly-available product documentation and operating-model disclosures as of the current quarter. Hyper 7 commitments are contractually backed and verifiable through the Evidence Layer on demand. Cloud provider statements above are general and may vary by specific contractual arrangement.
Schedule a workshop with our Hyper 7 architecture team. We will walk through the Evidence Layer live, map your compliance requirements to the platform, and provide an indicative deployment plan and pricing within 10 working days.