SAP is moving forward with its sovereign plans for the EU AI Cloud. This is a setup aimed at consolidating efforts in the region under one approach. The goal is to give European organizations more choice and control over how they run AI and cloud services.
EU AI Cloud is built to support organizations using SAP data centers, other European providers, or on-premises topologies.
Strengthening AI sovereignty in Europe
SAP is also working with Cohere to offer new agent-style multimodal AI tools to customers through Cohere North. The model is made available through SAP Business Technology Platform (SAP BTP) and provides a way to build AI systems for industries with rigorous data residency needs. The companies say the aim is to give companies control over their performance.
As stated by the Cohere team, the work with SAP aims to make advanced AI accessible to organizations that cannot move their data outside of Europe.
SAP is building the EU AI Cloud with several partners in Europe and around the world. Models and applications such as Cohere, Mistral AI, and OpenAI are integrated into SAP BTP. Businesses can access partner XaaS tools and choose where to run them.
The aim is to give businesses and public sector groups access to the latest AI tools, while maintaining European standards for security, data protection and sovereignty.
Deployment options for different security needs
EU AI Cloud operates through SAP Sovereign Cloud, allowing customers to choose the level of control they want within the stack. The AI models run on SAP’s cloud infrastructure and SAP BTP in European data centers, separating operations from the US hyperscalers.
Deployment options are:
- SAP Sovereign Cloud (EU) on SAP Cloud Infrastructure
SAP’s IaaS is based on open source tools and runs within SAP’s European data center network. Data remains within the EU to support compliance with local data protection regulations.
- SAP Sovereign Cloud Onsite
The infrastructure is managed by SAP but housed in data centers of the customer’s choice. This gives you the highest level of control over your data, operational and legal requirements, and maintains access to SAP’s cloud architecture.
- Hyperscalers selected by market
Some customers may still be running SAP commercial SaaS on global cloud providers. If you do so, you can add sovereignty elements based on local needs.
German sovereign cloud service designed for the public sector.
EU AI Cloud gives European organizations more choice in how they run their AI and cloud workloads with varying levels of data control. Through a combination of deployment options, partner models, and sovereign design, we aim to support enterprises facing strict privacy, storage, and operational rules.
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