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India Sovereign Cloud Solution Design & Deploy

Gaurav Sharma. - PeerSpot reviewer

Project Description

Solution Objectives

  • Ensure compliance with Indian data sovereignty and localisation laws (e.g., MeitY, RBI, IRDAI, CERT-In).

  • Provide a secure, scalable, and cost-efficient cloud infrastructure.

  • Maintain full control and ownership of data within India.

  • Enable hybrid and multi-cloud readiness for long-term flexibility.

  • Deliver low-latency and high availability services with TIA Tier-3+ infrastructure.


Deployment Strategy

Phase 1: Assessment & Planning

  • Requirement analysis (workload types, compliance, legacy integration)

  • Application discovery & classification (critical vs non-critical)

  • Define RPO/RTO, SLAs, DR/BCP needs

Phase 2: Design

  • Cloud architecture blueprinting

  • Security architecture and control mappings

  • Connectivity architecture (VPN/MPLS/Direct Connect/IX peering)

  • DR/HA topology and data replication strategy

  • Cloud-native services integration

Phase 3: Build & Configure

  • Provisioning of hardware & software stack

  • Cloud orchestration and automation setup

  • Security hardening and audit control enforcement

  • Service onboarding and tenant provisioning

Phase 4: Migration & Go-Live

  • Data/application migration (using tools like CloudEndure, Veeam, Zerto)

  • Testing (UAT/SIT/Performance/Security)

  • Production cutover

  • Handover & Knowledge Transfer

Phase 5: Operate & Optimize

  • 24x7 NOC/SOC monitoring

  • Patch & vulnerability management

  • Auto-scaling, cost optimisation, performance tuning

  • Regular compliance audits and reporting


Highlights

Ahead of schedule
Under budget

Difficulties

Large no. of people impacted
Cost overrun
Hard to meet schedule