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Prepare to use Microsoft Cloud for Sovereignty

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Microsoft is committed to providing you with the necessary tools and resources to help you achieve your sovereignty goals and protect your data in the public cloud. Microsoft Cloud for Sovereignty solutions lets you deploy, configure, and use the capabilities you need. You don't need a separate Cloud for Industry license to use these solutions.

To learn more about data sovereignty and how Cloud for Sovereignty can meet your organization’s needs, follow these links:

You can also explore the Microsoft Cloud for Sovereignty documentation library. It has a lot information to help you understand your organization’s needs in the context of digital sovereignty, deploying secure and compliant landing zones and policy initiatives.

To start your Cloud for Sovereignty journey, we recommend that you:

  • Gather information you need about compliance and regulations that apply to your organization to plan your configuration.

  • Use the information about guardrails, controls, and application examples to deploy infrastructure.

  • Use the transparency and audit features to monitor your environment.

With Microsoft Cloud for Sovereignty, you can reduce complexity, increase consistency and reliability, and build trust in your cloud environment.

Sovereignty in Azure

To deploy Cloud for Sovereignty solutions successfully, you should have a basic understanding of Azure fundamentals. Here are some key areas and helpful resources to get started:

Then access the necessary components, scripts, and documentation in the following GitHub repositories to get started with the Microsoft Cloud for Sovereignty solutions:

Sovereignty in Dataverse and Power Platform

We also provide guidance on using Dynamics 365 Services' existing features to meet sovereignty requirements. You can configure your Dataverse and Power Platform implementations to support your sovereignty objectives and safeguard your users and customers. These capabilities are all included in your Dynamics 365 licenses. You don't need a separate license to enable these solutions.

To learn more about key concepts surrounding sovereignty and your Dataverse/Power Platform environment, see Introduction to data sovereignty and Identify sovereign data.

To deploy Cloud for Sovereignty solutions in Dataverse or Power Platform environments, we recommend that you need to understand the security, privacy, and sovereignty features available to support the sovereign requirements for data residency and access control. For more information, see Sovereignty controls in Dataverse and Power Platform and Access controls for Dataverse and Power Platform.