Microsoft’s approach to sovereignty enables enterprises, public sectors, and regulated industries to participate in the digital economy securely and independently. Today, Microsoft announces new enhancements to its Sovereign Cloud offerings, designed to help organizations operating in highly regulated and secure environments maintain resilience and local control – even when cloud connectivity isn’t available.
Microsoft offers full stack capabilities that support customers across connected, intermittently connected and fully disconnected modes. Today’s expansion of capabilities includes three major updates:
- Azure Local disconnected operations (now available) – Organizations can now run mission-critical infrastructure with Azure governance and policy control, with no cloud connectivity, optimizing continuity for sovereign, classified or isolated environments.
- Microsoft 365 Local disconnected (now available) – Core productivity workloads, Exchange Server, SharePoint Server and Skype for Business Server can run fully inside the customer’s sovereign operational boundary on Azure Local, keeping teams productive even when disconnected from the cloud.
- Foundry Local adds modern infrastructure capabilities and support for large AI models – Organizations can now bring large AI models into fully disconnected, sovereign environments with Foundry Local. Using modern infrastructure from partners like NVIDIA, customers with sovereign needs will now be able to run multimodal models locally on their own hardware, inside strict sovereign boundaries enabling powerful, local AI inferencing in fully disconnected environments.
Azure Local disconnected operations and Microsoft 365 Local disconnected are now available worldwide, and large models on Foundry Local are available to qualified customers.
You can read the full Original Microsoft Blog here.