SAP is moving its sovereignty plans forward with EU AI Cloud, a setup meant to unify its efforts in the region under one approach. The goal is to give organisations in Europe more choice and control of how they run AI and cloud services.
EU AI Cloud is built to support organisations using SAP’s data centres, other European providers, or on-premise topologies.
Strengthening AI sovereignty in Europe
SAP is also working with Cohere to bring new agent-style and multimodal AI tools to customers through Cohere North. Models will be available through SAP Business Technology Platform (SAP BTP), giving industries with strict data residency needs a way to build AI systems. The two companies say the goal is to help enterprises retain control of performance.
As Cohere’s team put it, their work with SAP is meant to keep advanced AI accessible to organisations that cannot move data outside Europe.
SAP is building EU AI Cloud with several European and global partners. Models and applications from Cohere, Mistral AI, OpenAI, and others are integrated into SAP BTP. Companies can access partner XaaS tools and choose where to run them.
The aim is to give enterprises and public sector groups access to modern AI tools while staying in European standards for security, data protection, and sovereignty.
Deployment choices tied to different security needs
EU AI Cloud works through SAP Sovereign Cloud, which lets customers pick the level of control they want in the stack. AI models run on SAP’s cloud infrastructure and SAP BTP in European data centres, keeping operations separate from US hyperscalers.
Here are the deployment options:
- SAP Sovereign Cloud on SAP Cloud Infrastructure (EU)
SAP’s IaaS is based on open-source tools and runs inside SAP’s European data centre network. Data stays in the EU to support compliance with regional data protection rules.
- SAP Sovereign Cloud On-Site
Infrastructure is managed by SAP but housed in a customer’s chosen data centre. This offers the highest level of control over data, operations, and legal requirements and keeps access to SAP’s cloud architecture.
- Selected hyperscalers by market
Some customers may still run SAP commercial SaaS on global cloud providers. When they do, they can add sovereignty elements based on regional needs.
A sovereign cloud service in Germany designed for the public sector.
EU AI Cloud gives organisations in Europe more choice in how they run AI and cloud workloads with varying levels of control of their data. The mix of deployment options, partner models, and sovereign design aims to support companies that face strict rules around privacy, storage, and operations.
(Photo by Antoine Schibler)
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