ESDS launches Swaraj Cloud for Indian regulated sectors

ESDS Software Solution has launched Swaraj Cloud, a platform built and operated entirely in India.

The launch adds a domestic cloud offering for Indian enterprises, banks, government bodies and other regulated sectors facing stricter data residency and compliance requirements. The service runs on infrastructure ESDS owns in Indian data centres and remains under Indian legal jurisdiction.

ESDS is positioning the product around sovereignty as Indian organisations face closer scrutiny over where data is stored and which laws govern the underlying systems. The company cited the Digital Personal Data Protection Act, the Ministry of Electronics and Information Technology's cloud selection framework for government workloads, and Reserve Bank of India guidance for the banking sector as key drivers of demand.

According to ESDS, the platform is not a resale of an overseas cloud service. The company owns and operates the servers, storage and networks behind the product, and workloads processed on the platform are designed to stay within Indian borders.

A central launch feature is what ESDS calls a Prompt-to-Production Solution Generator. Users can describe an infrastructure requirement in plain language or through a guided input process, after which the system produces a proposed cloud architecture, maps it against compliance requirements, generates a bill of materials in rupees and deploys the environment automatically.

ESDS said the workflow covers six stages, from requirements input and architecture preview to cost generation, compliance validation and automated deployment. Customers are shown the architecture before resources are provisioned and the cost before charges begin.

The company argues that this approach addresses a longstanding operational problem for regulated industries, where cloud procurement, provisioning and compliance checks can take weeks. Its aim is to reduce that process to minutes by removing manual configuration steps.

In a statement, Piyush Somani, Promoter, Managing Director and Chairman of ESDS Software Solution, described the launch as part of a broader push for domestic digital infrastructure.

"India stands at the defining inflection point of its digital century. Over the last decade, India has built one of the world's largest Digital Public Infrastructure ecosystems, yet the foundation powering our digital economy continues to rely on foreign cloud platforms, foreign AI ecosystems, and imported compute. Today, over 70% of India's workloads continue to run on foreign infrastructure, resulting in significant economic outflows and strategic dependence on technologies beyond our control. The cost of inaction as a nation is reflected in geopolitical risks, compliance obligations and the increasing need for digital self-reliance. It is this vision that inspired the creation of Swaraj Cloud - India's AI Autonomous Architect Cloud Platform, built in India, governed in India, and engineered for global scale. Purpose-built to deliver sovereign cloud capabilities through autonomous intelligence, hyper-scale architecture and AI-driven automation, Swaraj Cloud harnesses a comprehensive sovereign AI digital IT ecosystem that brings together 30+ services and 80+ integrated intelligent capabilities, enabling organizations to scale their digital transformation through a single, unified sovereign platform. A defining capability of Swaraj Cloud is its Prompt-to-Production architecture, powered by an integrated Solution Generator that enables organizations to transform a business requirement into a production-ready live environment. Built on five foundational pillars - AI Intelligence, Scalability, Security, Compliance and Data Sovereignty - Swaraj Cloud seamlessly unifies Cloud Service Provider (CSP) and Managed Service Provider (MSP) capabilities into a single sovereign ecosystem. The path ahead for India lies unequivocally in Digital Sovereignty, where our data, cloud, AI, compute, cybersecurity and critical digital infrastructure are developed, governed and continuously innovated within India. This is a collective national responsibility and ESDS is committed to enabling this vision by delivering a sovereign end-to-end AI and IT ecosystem that empowers large enterprises, governments and BFSI institutions. Our purpose extends to enabling the AtmaNirbhar Bharat mission and building sovereign digital foundations through platforms like Swaraj Cloud that will enable India's Sovereign AI future and strengthen its leadership in the age of Artificial Intelligence," said Somani.

Launch features

Beyond the deployment tool, Swaraj Cloud includes a broad set of cloud, AI, security and compliance services, according to ESDS. The launch package includes GPU-enabled virtual machines for AI model training, managed Jupyter notebooks, automated machine learning operations pipelines, model governance and drift detection.

On the infrastructure side, the platform includes a multi-hypervisor infrastructure service, software-defined networking, distributed denial-of-service protection, elastic IP management, managed Kubernetes, a container registry with automated vulnerability scanning, and agentless virtual machine backup with point-in-time restore.

Security and compliance are also part of the offering. ESDS said the platform includes a security information and event management service with MITRE ATT&CK threat categorisation and CERT-In breach notification integration, as well as continuous compliance monitoring against PCI DSS, NIST and Trust Service Criteria frameworks.

Billing is handled in Indian rupees, with real-time usage dashboards, resource-level cost breakdowns and an in-platform billing calculator. ESDS also launched a marketplace with one-click deployment and a developer platform with software development kits, command-line tools and API documentation.

Komal Somani, Whole-time Director of ESDS Software Solution, said the company sees a gap in the market between domestic control and technical breadth.

"Every regulated enterprise in India has been navigating a difficult trade-off: capable cloud infrastructure that does not meet sovereignty requirements, or sovereign infrastructure that does not meet capability requirements. Swaraj Cloud is built to remove that trade-off. With Prompt-to-Production, built-in compliance monitoring, and a sovereign AI platform, enterprises now have a single platform that meets regulatory obligations and operational demands without compromise," said Somani.

ESDS is headquartered in Nashik and said it operates Tier III-certified data centres serving government, banking, healthcare and other regulated industries. Swaraj Cloud is available immediately to organisations in government, public sector units, banking, financial services and insurance, and other regulated sectors. The platform is MeitY-empanelled and aligned with the DPDP Act, according to the company.