What is the Cloud? Why is Sovereign Cloud Important for India?

News Desk, News Nation 360: Addressing the growing need for data sovereignty, localised cybersecurity, and compliance within India’s critical industries, Bharti Airtel has bolstered its enterprise offerings with Airtel Cloud via Xtelify – the first-ever sovereign, telco-grade cloud platform in India, which hosts data, control plane, metadata, and encryption locally within the country. Engineered to handle up-to 1.4 billion transactions internally per minute for the telecom giant’s operations and fortified with AI-driven security tools that have already neutralized over 93 billion spam calls, 4 billion spam messages, and 1.4 million malicious URLs, the MeitY-cleared cloud platform offers IaaS, PaaS, and Generative AI as a Service with guaranteed 99.99% uptime, immutable backups, geo-redundant features, and other capabilities to support banking, healthcare, defense, and public sector digital transformation initiatives while keeping workloads protected from external jurisdictional risks and ensuring adherence to local data privacy laws.