ESDS Software Solution Unveils Swaraj Cloud
ESDS Software Solution Ltd., India's sovereign end-to-end AI ecosystem provider, announced the launch of Swaraj Cloud, an AI-autonomous sovereign cloud platform built and operated entirely on Indian soil. The platform runs on ESDS-owned physical infrastructure housed in Indian data centers and governed under Indian jurisdiction, delivering enterprise-grade compute, AI, security, and developer capabilities with 100% Indian data residency and minimal foreign infrastructure dependency.
Addressing Data Sovereignty Gaps
The platform addresses a regulatory and operational gap exacerbated by the enforcement of the Digital Personal Data Protection (DPDP) Act 2023, MeitY's Cloud Selection Framework for government workloads, and RBI cloud guidelines governing data residency in the banking sector. Indian enterprises in regulated industries—banking, government, healthcare, and public services—have faced stringent data sovereignty obligations while operating on infrastructure not subject to Indian legal jurisdiction. Swaraj Cloud resolves that gap at the infrastructure level, not through contractual overlays or data processing agreements.
According to Piyush Somani, Promoter, Managing Director, and Chairman of ESDS Software Solution Ltd., "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." He added that Swaraj Cloud is built to deliver sovereign cloud capabilities through autonomous intelligence, hyper-scale architecture, and AI-driven automation, harnessing a comprehensive sovereign AI digital IT ecosystem with 30+ services and 80+ integrated intelligent capabilities.
Prompt-to-Production Architecture
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. The platform is built on five foundational pillars: AI Intelligence, Scalability, Security, Compliance, and Data Sovereignty, seamlessly unifying Cloud Service Provider (CSP) and Managed Service Provider (MSP) capabilities into a single sovereign ecosystem.
Somani emphasized, "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."
ESDS owns and operates the physical servers, storage, and networks that Swaraj Cloud runs on. It is not a rebranded or resold foreign cloud service. Workloads processed on Swaraj Cloud are designed to remain within Indian borders, under Indian law, minimizing foreign legal exposure on data.
How Prompt-to-Production Works
The Prompt-to-Production Solution Generator is a deployment engine that sets Swaraj Cloud apart from other Indian cloud platforms. An enterprise describes its requirement in plain language or through a guided input wizard. Swaraj Cloud's AI layer translates that input into a validated cloud architecture, maps it against applicable compliance frameworks including BFSI regulatory requirements, generates a complete Bill of Materials with line-item INR pricing, and auto-deploys the entire environment in a single, uninterrupted automated run.
The complete workflow runs across six automated stages: requirements input, architecture recommendation with a visual preview, Bill of Materials generation in INR, compliance mapping and validation, auto-deployment of all components in sequence, and a live billing preview the moment the environment goes live. The enterprise sees the architecture before a single resource is provisioned, sees the cost before a single rupee is charged, and receives a fully operational, compliance-validated cloud environment without any manual infrastructure configuration.
For Indian enterprises where procurement cycles, infrastructure provisioning timelines, and compliance validation have historically been multi-week exercises, Prompt-to-Production compresses that journey into minutes.
Komal Somani, Whole-time Director, ESDS Software Solution Ltd., stated, "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."
Comprehensive Service Portfolio
Swaraj Cloud launches with a service portfolio spanning the full enterprise cloud stack. The Enlight AIOps platform provides GPU-enabled virtual machines for AI model training, managed Jupyter Notebooks, fine-tuning-as-a-service, automated MLOps pipelines, model governance, drift detection, built-in AI safety controls, and a library of 20+ pre-built industry models—all running on Indian infrastructure. Infrastructure services include a multi-hypervisor IaaS platform with Software-Defined Networking, DDoS protection, and elastic IP management; Managed Kubernetes Service; an OCI-compliant Container Registry with automated vulnerability scanning; and agentless VM backup with point-in-time restore.
Security operations are supported by a built-in SIEM platform with MITRE ATT&CK threat categorization and CERT-In breach notification integration. Compliance-as-a-Service is embedded natively, providing continuous monitoring against PCI DSS, NIST, and TSC frameworks, automated compliance scoring across all provisioned resources, and one-click audit evidence export. Billing is managed entirely in Indian Rupees, with real-time usage dashboards, resource-level cost breakdowns, and an in-platform billing calculator. A cloud marketplace with one-click deployment and a developer platform with multi-language SDKs, CLI tooling, and an interactive API documentation portal complete the launch offering.
Availability and About ESDS
Swaraj Cloud is available immediately to Indian enterprises across Government, PSU, BFSI, and regulated sectors. The platform is MeitY-empanelled and DPDP Act-aligned. Enterprises can access the platform at www.esds.co.in/swaraj-cloud or by contacting ESDS at 1800-209-3006.
ESDS Software Solution Ltd. is India's sovereign end-to-end AI ecosystem provider headquartered in Nashik, Maharashtra. ESDS operates Tier III certified data centers and serves enterprises across Government, BFSI, Healthcare, and regulated industries with cloud infrastructure, AI platforms, cybersecurity solutions, and managed services. Swaraj Cloud is ESDS's sovereign enterprise cloud platform.
