Mint explainer on what makes a cloud sovereign

India is building a sovereign-cloud policy, and MeitY has set up a committee to frame it. The debate centres on whether local data storage is enough without control over physical hardware, encryption and jurisdiction. Mint explains that a cloud is sovereign only when a country controls infrastructure, encryption keys, data access and the governing legal jurisdiction. Simply locating servers in India does not meet that standard.

Source: Mint ↗