Sovereign Private Cloud

STP builds enterprise private cloud on equipment you own and control: procurement, delivery, racking, power, fabric, virtualisation, Kubernetes and observability as one accountable scope: for organisations whose data must remain on their own infrastructure or inside Armenia.

Public cloud is the right answer for many workloads and the wrong answer for some. Regulated financial institutions, healthcare providers and licensed operators often face data residency requirements, regulatory scrutiny of processor arrangements, or simply a cost profile that stops making sense at steady-state scale.

For those cases we build a genuine private cloud: self-service provisioning, elastic capacity, infrastructure-as-code and Kubernetes on hardware you own, sited where your regulator expects it to be. Not a rack of servers called a cloud: an actual platform with an API.

Because we cover procurement through to the platform layer, there is no seam between the vendor who sold the hardware, the contractor who racked it and the team who has to run it. That seam is where private cloud projects normally fail.

We are equally willing to tell you when public cloud is the better answer. A private cloud that exists for the wrong reason is an expensive way to be slower.

What is included

Requirements and regulatory constraint analysis

Capacity, power and cooling modelling

Hardware specification, procurement, import and delivery

Compute, storage and network build and interconnect

Software-defined storage and storage tiering

Hypervisor and virtualisation platform deployment

Kubernetes platform on top of the private cloud

Identity integration and role-based access control

Infrastructure-as-code for the whole environment

Monitoring, logging, metrics and capacity reporting

Backup and disaster recovery integration

Runbooks, architecture documentation and operator handover

Questions

Why would an Armenian bank choose private cloud over public cloud?

Usually for three reasons: data residency and regulatory requirements over where customer data is processed and stored; auditability, because an owned platform is simpler to evidence under Central Bank scrutiny; and steady-state cost, since predictable always-on workloads are frequently cheaper on owned hardware than on metered public cloud. The trade-off is that you carry the capacity planning and the refresh cycle.

What does "sovereign" mean in this context?

That the equipment is owned by your organisation, physically located where you choose, and operated without a dependency on a foreign hyperscaler for the control plane. It is a statement about legal and operational control, not about any specific vendor.

Can a private cloud run Kubernetes properly?

Yes, and it is how we normally build it. Kubernetes cares about compute, storage classes and networking, all of which can be provided on-premises. The work is in getting persistent storage, load balancing and ingress right, which is exactly where a hardware-only integrator stops and we continue.