● Sovereign Digital Cloud · Full Stack. Your Data Centre. Your Control.

The Complete Private
Cloud Platform

A full-stack private cloud isn't just OpenStack. It's a carefully integrated set of best-in-class open-source components — routing, security, storage, orchestration, AI, and observability — that together deliver every capability you'd expect from AWS or Azure, without handing control to anyone else.

Service Equivalency Architecture Stack
How It's Built

A Layered Open-Source Architecture

Each layer is independently operated, independently auditable, and independently replaceable. No proprietary glue. No black boxes.

Application Layer Your workloads live here. We make sure every layer beneath behaves so your engineers focus on shipping, not on infrastructure.
Container & AI Layer We design and operate your container platform end-to-end — cluster lifecycle, deployment automation, image management, secrets, and multi-tenancy — and stand up a production-grade AI inference and training stack from day one.
Cloud Platform Layer We build your private cloud control plane — virtual machines, bare-metal provisioning, identity and access, tenant networking, load balancing, key and certificate vaults, DNS, and infrastructure-as-code — sized to your hardware and tuned for your workloads.
Storage Layer We engineer your storage tier — block, object, and shared filesystem — with capacity planning, replication, snapshots, backup, and disaster recovery. No SAN vendor lock-in, no per-terabyte license fees.
Edge & Security Layer We set up your edge networking and security posture — BGP peering with carriers, routing, perimeter firewalls, intrusion detection and prevention, site-to-site and client VPN, and web application firewalling — across your data centres and points of presence. We work with whichever vendor you already own.
Observability Layer We instrument the whole stack — metrics, logs, traces, and on-call alerting — and tune the dashboards so your operations team sees signal, not noise.
Bare Metal / Hardware We help you select, source, rack, cable, and commission servers, GPUs, and switching — at your own data centre or a colocation facility — with no proprietary appliance to phone home and no vendor preference forced on you.

Every component: Apache / MIT / GPL licensed open-source. No proprietary layers. No licence fees.

Service Equivalency

Every AWS / Azure / GCP Service — On Your Infrastructure

Every capability the hyperscalers sell you exists as a best-in-class open-source component. The difference: you own it, you operate it, and you pay no per-API or per-seat fees.

Capability SDcloud / Open Source AWS Azure GCP
Compute
Virtual Machines OpenStack Nova + KVM EC2 Virtual Machines Compute Engine
Bare Metal OpenStack Ironic EC2 Bare Metal Azure Bare Metal Bare Metal Solution
GPU / HPC Compute GPU passthrough (NVIDIA / AMD) EC2 P / G instances NC / ND series A2 / A3 instances
Auto Scaling OpenStack Heat + KEDA Auto Scaling Groups VM Scale Sets Instance Groups (MIG)
Storage
Block Storage Ceph RBD + OpenStack Cinder EBS Managed Disks Persistent Disk
Object Storage (S3) Ceph RGW / MinIO S3 Blob Storage Cloud Storage
Shared File Storage CephFS + OpenStack Manila EFS Azure Files Filestore
Container Volumes Longhorn / Ceph CSI EBS CSI / EFS CSI Azure Disk CSI GCE PD CSI
Backup Velero + Restic + Ceph Snapshots AWS Backup Azure Backup Cloud Backup
Networking
Virtual Private Network OpenStack Neutron + OVN VPC Virtual Network VPC
Load Balancer OpenStack Octavia + HAProxy ELB (ALB / NLB) Azure Load Balancer Cloud Load Balancing
DNS OpenStack Designate + PowerDNS Route 53 Azure DNS Cloud DNS
BGP Routing VyOS + FRRouting Transit Gateway ExpressRoute Cloud Router
VPN Gateway WireGuard + StrongSwan AWS VPN Azure VPN Gateway Cloud VPN
Security
Firewall OPNsense / VyOS + nftables Security Groups + NACL NSG + Azure Firewall VPC Firewall Rules
IDS / IPS Suricata + Zeek GuardDuty Microsoft Defender Security Command Center
Secrets / Key Management HashiCorp Vault KMS + Secrets Manager Key Vault Secret Manager + Cloud KMS
Identity & Access Keystone + Keycloak IAM + Cognito Azure AD / Entra ID Cloud IAM
Containers & K8s
Managed Kubernetes Kubernetes + Cluster API EKS AKS GKE
Container Network (CNI) Cilium eBPF VPC CNI Azure CNI / Calico Dataplane v2 (eBPF)
Container Registry Harbor ECR ACR Artifact Registry
GitOps / CD Argo CD / Flux CD CodePipeline Azure DevOps Cloud Deploy
AI / ML
LLM Inference API vLLM + Ollama (OpenAI-compatible) Bedrock Azure OpenAI Service Vertex AI
Model Training Kubeflow + Ray + DeepSpeed SageMaker Azure ML Vertex AI Training
Vector Database (RAG) Qdrant / Milvus / pgvector OpenSearch (kNN) Azure AI Search Vertex AI Vector Search
Observability
Metrics Prometheus + Thanos CloudWatch Azure Monitor Cloud Monitoring
Dashboards Grafana CloudWatch Dashboards Azure Dashboards Cloud Monitoring
Log Management Grafana Loki + Promtail CloudWatch Logs Log Analytics Cloud Logging
Distributed Tracing Grafana Tempo + OpenTelemetry X-Ray Application Insights Cloud Trace
Automation & IaC
Infrastructure as Code Terraform (OpenStack provider) CloudFormation / Terraform Bicep / ARM / Terraform Deployment Manager
Configuration Management Ansible Systems Manager Azure Automation Config / Ansible
CI/CD Platform GitLab CE / Gitea + Tekton CodePipeline / CodeBuild Azure DevOps Cloud Build

Feature parity based on standard deployment. Additional components may be integrated for specific requirements.

See How It Maps to Your Requirements

Every organisation has different needs. We can map this platform to your specific workloads, compliance requirements, and existing infrastructure.

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