The Open Foundation for Digital Sovereignty in Europe

OpenStack is open-source, vendor-neutral, and verifiable against European standards—the fundamental technological prerequisite for a cloud that is not tied to a single provider.
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Why OpenStack
Six reasons why OpenStack is the ideal cloud platform in Europe

OpenStack is not a niche product, but rather the technological foundation upon which a sovereign cloud infrastructure can actually be implemented in Europe.

Sovereignty

Our own, independent cloud installations in our own data center, without relying on U.S. providers.

Licence

Open source under the Apache License. This provides flexibility and prevents vendor lock-in from the ground up.

Law

Isolated operation of data and networks makes it possible to actually meet requirements such as BSI C5 and the GDPR, rather than just claiming to do so.

Flexibility

Workloads can be deployed across different OpenStack operators instead of being tied to a single one.

Growth

Designed for managing thousands of servers and virtual machines, from individual projects to large-scale environments.

AI

As GPU clusters become increasingly important, OpenStack is also increasingly positioning itself as a foundation for AI infrastructure.

 


Initiative
Sovereign Cloud Stack: OpenStack as a Common Standard

The Sovereign Cloud Stack (SCS) is an alliance of European providers who are defining a standardized, sovereign cloud platform based on OpenStack, rather than each building their own isolated system. For customers, this means that workloads can be migrated between SCS-certified providers without having to rebuild the architecture. secunet cloud is SCS-certified and thus directly supports the goals of the German Government Cloud Strategy, which relies precisely on this interoperability.

Why secunet cloud
OpenStack, without letting operations get bogged down

An open standard is only half the answer. The other half is who actually supports operations when it counts.

secunet cloud operates a highly secure OpenStack platform developed in-house, without deviating from the open standard.


Compatibility with the Sovereign Cloud Stack did not require any changes to the core components because the system was built to comply with standards from the outset.


Standard-compliant architecture that is not dependent on a single vendor, with traceability rather than contractual guarantees.


The same OpenStack foundation supports public, private, and classified clouds without requiring a separate technology for each tier.


A common foundation across multiple product lines

OpenStack is not a standalone product, but rather the foundation on which the following offerings are built.
Public Cloud

Scalable, secure Infrastructure-as-a-Service based on OpenStack.

Classified Cloud

A hardened OpenStack foundation for higher security requirements, extending into the classified domain.

Private Cloud

The same OpenStack infrastructure, operated in your own data center, when data must not leave the premises.

Built on OpenStack, proven in practice

These projects demonstrate why open, portable IaaS infrastructure is actually the deciding factor in the selection process.
IaaS for Agricultural Solutions

High-performance, flexible IaaS infrastructure based on OpenStack for highly fluctuating, seasonal data volumes.

Video-SaaS

Selected German, ISO 27001-certified data centers with BYO-IP support and low vendor lock-in as key selection criteria.

Urban Tech Republic

Cloud-native infrastructure for the research and industrial park at the former Tegel Airport.

Zertifizierungen & Standards

IT-Grundschutz
ISO 27001
ISO 27017
ISO 27018
BSI C5 Type 2
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Evaluating OpenStack in Your Own Context

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