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Plan and prepare for Microsoft Cloud for Sovereignty in 2024 release wave 2

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Important

The 2024 release wave 2 plan covers all new functionalities planned to be delivered to market from October 2024 to March 2025. In this article, you'll find the product overview and what's new and planned for Microsoft Cloud for Sovereignty.

Overview

Microsoft Cloud for Sovereignty helps public sector and regulated industry customers build and digitally transform workloads in the Microsoft Cloud while meeting their specific compliance, security, and policy needs. Cloud for Sovereignty uses hardware-based confidentiality, encryption controls, tooling, and automation to establish the extra protection that governments require. It also provides tools and guidance to simplify, standardize, and improve confidence in the digital sovereignty of the public cloud throughout the cloud implementation lifecycle.

We're pleased to announce several new features as part of 2024 release wave 2.

We continue to improve the Sovereign Landing Zone (SLZ) experience for users. We closely align the SLZ with the Azure Landing Zone (ALZ) to extend the usability of SLZ controls, increase reliance on Azure built-in policies, and expand the infrastructure configuration options. We'll also introduce the first version of SLZ in Terraform.

We're releasing several new policy initiatives to our existing portfolio library. Customers can use these policies to customize deployments according to established regulatory compliance frameworks and government requirements. Besides Azure's built-in policies, customers have access to the updated Sovereignty Baseline Policy initiative and additional country-specific and regulation-specific policy sets.

Investment areas

Investment areas

Sovereign guardrails and guidance
Microsoft Cloud for Sovereignty provides access to codified architectures, workload templates, and tooling to accelerate the creation of compliant environments that meet sovereignty, privacy, and regulatory requirements. Additionally, Cloud for Sovereignty reduces the complexity of cloud implementations by providing capabilities that make the process simpler, predictable, and repeatable by design.

Cloud for Sovereignty capabilities capitalizes on existing concepts and services such as Infrastructure-as-Code, Azure Policy, and Policy-as-Code. The capabilities are:

  • The Sovereign Landing Zone (SLZ), a variant of the Azure landing zone (ALZ) that focuses towards digital sovereignty (data residency, confidential computing, and more customer control over data) is available in Bicep and Terraform.
  • The Sovereignty Baseline policy initiatives, which set sovereign guardrails like data residency and data confidentiality.
  • The workload templates, which speed up the deployment of Azure workloads that are compatible with the SLZ policies by design.

To learn more about the full set of capabilities being delivered during this release wave, Check out the release plan.