Claranet Sovereign Cloud

Assurance that your hosted or private cloud operating system is functional, patched, and available.

Challenges we solve

Your data has to stay in the UK

Regulation, customer contracts, or public-sector rules mean your workloads can't sit in a data centre on the other side of the world. You need certainty about where your data resides.

Compliance keeps getting harder

Auditors want evidence, not assurances. Proving data residency, access control, and encryption across a sprawling public-cloud estate takes time you don't have.

Hyperscaler bills are unpredictable

Consumption pricing is hard to forecast, and the bill rarely matches the budget. You want the flexibility of cloud with costs you can actually plan around.

You don't want to hand over control

Self-service matters, but so does knowing a UK team is watching the platform around the clock. You need both: the freedom to build and the safety net of expert support.

What is Claranet Sovereign Cloud?

Claranet Sovereign Cloud is an Infrastructure-as-a-Service (IaaS) platform built and operated in the UK. You get the agility of public cloud, with the assurance that your data stays within UK borders and within reach of a team you can pick up the phone to.

You configure compute, storage, networking, and backup to suit your workloads, then manage it all yourself through a dedicated tenant portal. Spin up virtual machines from a catalogue of operating system templates, or bring your own. When you need a steer, our Competitive Edge consultants work with you through the Discover, Analyse, Architect, and Mobilise phases to design the right solution for where your business is heading.

Choose a shared platform for standard workloads, or a dedicated cluster where licensing, performance, or security demands call for it. Either way, the infrastructure sits in secure, ISO-compliant UK data centres with encryption at rest, resilient power, and round-the-clock monitoring as standard.

Key Benefits

Data kept in secure UK data centres
Shared or dedicated platform options
24x7x365 monitoring and UK support
Self-service tenant portal for full control
Encryption at rest with AES 256-bit
Predictable commit or flexible usage billing
24/7 platform and system monitoring

Why Claranet?

Tier-3+ UK Data Centres

24/7 Platform monitoring, every day of the year

15 min Priority 1 target response

100% UK-based data residency

Service Components

Monitoring

CPU, memory, disk, network performance, IP availability, system errors, and OS services tracked 24/7.

Patching

Monthly identification, testing in staging, controlled deployment, rollback capability, compliance reporting.

OS Configuration

Feature configuration, file system management, licensing, networking, vendor escalation, and optimisation.

Backup

Agent-based backup, multiple retention tiers, monitoring, daily and monthly reporting, full data encryption.

Disaster Recovery

Runbook creation, testing, 15-day customer review period, and documented recovery procedures.

Technical capabilities

Sovereign UK infrastructure

Your environment runs in secure UK data centres with access limited to authorised personnel, dual-feed UPS power, and resilient cooling, all maintained to ISO standards.