ESDS
Software Solution Limited launches Swaraj Cloud, India’s AI-autonomous
architect cloud platform built, and operated entirely on Indian soil.
Designed for the enterprises, banks, government bodies and regulated industries
that cannot afford to keep building India’s digital future on infrastructure
governed by foreign law, Swaraj Cloud delivers the compute power, AI capability
and developer tooling of a global hyperscaler with a key foundational
difference: servers, data, and decisions are designed to remain under Indian
ownership and Indian legal jurisdiction.
Mumbai,
India, 2nd July 2026 : ESDS Software Solution Ltd., India's Sovereign
End-to-End AI Ecosystem Provider, today announced the launch of Swaraj Cloud
an AI-Autonomous Sovereign Cloud Platform built, operated entirely on Indian
soil. Running on ESDS-owned physical infrastructure housed in Indian Data
Centers and governed under Indian jurisdiction, Swaraj Cloud delivers
enterprise-grade compute, AI, security and developer capabilities with 100%
Indian data residency and minimal foreign infrastructure dependency.
The
platform addresses a regulatory and operational gap that has grown more acute
with the enforcement of the Digital Personal Data Protection (DPDP) Act 2023,
MeitY's Cloud Selection Framework for government workloads and RBI cloud
guidelines governing data residency in the banking sector. Indian enterprises
in regulated industries banking, government, healthcare and public services
have been required to meet increasingly stringent data sovereignty obligations
while operating on infrastructure not subject to Indian legal jurisdiction.
Swaraj Cloud is built to resolve that gap at the infrastructure level, not
through contractual overlays or data processing agreements.
"India
stands at the defining inflection point of its digital century. Over the last
decade, India has built one of the world's largest Digital Public
Infrastructure ecosystems, yet the foundation powering our digital economy
continues to rely on foreign cloud platforms, foreign AI ecosystems, and
imported compute. Today, over 70% of India's workloads continue to run on
foreign infrastructure , resulting in significant economic outflows and
strategic dependence on technologies beyond our control. The cost of inaction
as a nation is reflected in geopolitical risks, compliance obligations and the
increasing need for digital self-reliance.
It
is this vision that inspired the creation of Swaraj Cloud - India's AI
Autonomous Architect Cloud Platform, built in India, governed in India, and
engineered for global scale. Purpose-built to deliver sovereign cloud
capabilities through autonomous intelligence, hyper-scale architecture and
AI-driven automation, Swaraj Cloud harnesses a comprehensive sovereign AI
digital IT ecosystem that brings together 30+ services and 80+ integrated
intelligent capabilities, enabling organizations to scale their digital
transformation through a single, unified sovereign platform.
A
defining capability of Swaraj Cloud is its Prompt-to-Production architecture ,
powered by an integrated Solution Generator that enables organizations to
transform a business requirement into a production-ready live environment.
Built
on five foundational pillars - AI Intelligence, Scalability, Security,
Compliance and Data Sovereignty - Swaraj
Cloud seamlessly unifies Cloud Service Provider (CSP) and Managed Service Provider
(MSP) capabilities into a single sovereign ecosystem.
The
path ahead for India lies unequivocally in Digital Sovereignty , where our
data, cloud, AI, compute, cybersecurity and critical digital infrastructure are
developed, governed and continuously innovated within India. This is a
collective national responsibility and ESDS is committed to enabling this
vision by delivering a sovereign end-to-end AI and IT ecosystem that empowers
large enterprises, governments and BFSI institutions. Our purpose extends to
enabling the AtmaNirbhar Bharat mission and building sovereign digital
foundations through platforms like Swaraj Cloud that will enable India's
Sovereign AI future and strengthen its leadership in the age of Artificial
Intelligence"— Piyush Somani Promoter, Managing Director and Chairman ESDS
Software Solution Ltd.
ESDS
owns and operates the physical servers, storage and networks that Swaraj Cloud
runs on. It is not a rebranded or resold foreign cloud service. Workloads
processed on Swaraj Cloud are designed to remain within Indian borders, under
Indian law, seeking to minimise foreign legal exposure on data.
Prompt
to Production: Redefining How Cloud Infrastructure Is Built
The
defining capability of Swaraj Cloud at launch is its Prompt-to-Production
Solution Generator, a deployment engine designed to be a distinctive
offering among Indian cloud platforms. An enterprise describes its requirement
in plain language or through a guided input wizard. Swaraj Cloud's AI layer
translates that input into a validated cloud architecture, maps it against
applicable compliance frameworks including BFSI regulatory requirements,
generates a complete Bill of Materials with line-item INR pricing and
auto-deploys the entire environment in a single, uninterrupted automated run.
The
complete workflow runs across six automated stages: requirements input,
architecture recommendation with a visual preview, Bill of Materials generation
in INR, compliance mapping and validation, auto-deployment of all components in
sequence and a live billing preview the moment the environment goes live. The
enterprise sees the architecture before a single resource is provisioned. It
sees the cost before a single rupee is charged. And it receives a fully
operational, compliance-validated cloud environment without a single
infrastructure configuration step performed manually.
For
Indian enterprises where procurement cycles, infrastructure provisioning
timelines and compliance validation have historically been multi-week
exercises, Prompt-to-Production is designed to compress that journey into
minutes. It is a highly differentiated capability of the platform at launch and
a clear expression of Swaraj Cloud's AI-autonomous design philosophy.
"Every
regulated enterprise in India has been navigating a difficult trade-off,
capable cloud infrastructure that does not meet sovereignty requirements, or
sovereign infrastructure that does not meet capability requirements. Swaraj
Cloud is built to remove that trade-off. With Prompt-to-Production, built-in
compliance monitoring, and a sovereign AI platform, enterprises now have a
single platform that meets regulatory obligations and operational demands
without compromise."
Komal
Somani, Whole-time Director, ESDS Software Solution Ltd.
Beyond
the Solution Generator, Swaraj Cloud launches with a service portfolio spanning
the full enterprise cloud stack. The Enlight AIOps platform provides
GPU-enabled virtual machines for AI model training, managed Jupyter Notebooks,
fine-tuning-as-a-service, automated MLOps pipelines, model governance, drift
detection, built-in AI safety controls and a [library of 20+ pre-built industry
models all running on Indian infrastructure. Infrastructure services include a
multi-hypervisor IaaS platform with Software-Defined Networking, DDoS
protection and elastic IP management; Managed Kubernetes Service; an
OCI-compliant Container Registry with automated vulnerability scanning; and
agentless VM backup with point-in-time restore. Security operations are
supported by a built-in SIEM platform with MITRE ATT&CK threat
categorisation and CERT-In breach notification integration.
Compliance-as-a-Service is embedded natively into the platform providing
continuous monitoring against PCI DSS, NIST and TSC (Trust Service Criteria)
frameworks, automated compliance scoring across all provisioned resources and
one-click audit evidence export. Billing is managed entirely in Indian Rupees,
with real-time usage dashboards, resource-level cost breakdowns and an
in-platform billing calculator. A cloud marketplace with one-click deployment
and a developer platform with multi-language SDKs, CLI tooling and an
interactive API documentation portal complete the launch offering.
Swaraj
Cloud is available immediately to Indian enterprises across Government, PSU,
BFSI and regulated sectors. The platform is MeitY-empanelled and DPDP
Act-aligned. Enterprises can access the platform at www.esds.co.in/swaraj-cloud
or by contacting ESDS at 1800-209-3006.
About
ESDS Software Solution Ltd.
ESDS
Software Solution Ltd. Is India's Sovereign End-to-End AI Ecosystem Provider
headquartered in Nashik, Maharashtra. ESDS operates Tier III certified data
centers and serves enterprises across Government, BFSI, Healthcare and regulated
industries with cloud infrastructure, AI platforms, cybersecurity solutions and
managed services. Swaraj Cloud is ESDS's sovereign enterprise cloud platform.
For more information, visit www.esds.co.in.
Important
Disclosure
ESDS
Software Solution Limited is proposing, subject to receipt of requisite
approvals, market conditions and other considerations, to make an initial
public offer of its equity shares and has filed a Draft Red Herring Prospectus
(“DRHP”) with the Securities and Exchange Board of India (“SEBI”). The DRHP is
available on the website of the Company at www.esds.co.in, the website of SEBI
at www.sebi.gov.in, as well as on the websites of the Book Running Lead
Manager, DAM Capital Advisors Limited, the website of the National Stock Exchange
of India Limited at www.nseindia.com, and the website of BSE Limited at
www.bseindia.com, respectively. Investors should note that investment in equity
shares involves a high degree of risk. For details, potential investors should
refer to the Red Herring Prospectus which may be filed with the Registrar of
Companies, Maharashtra at Mumbai, in future, including the section titled “Risk
Factors”. Potential investors should not rely on the DRHP filed with SEBI in
making any investment decision.