Built in India, Governed by India: Island Computing Launches Sovereign Cloud Platform

• Published on     August 15, 2026

India, 15 August 2026 | As the nation celebrates eight decades of independence, a Bengaluru‑based startup declares that India’s cloud infrastructure can and should be wholly under Indian jurisdiction.

Island Computing today unveiled the general availability of its fully managed sovereign cloud platform, which it describes as India’s first purpose‑built solution to keep data, hardware, and operations inside Indian borders and under Indian law. This is not merely a regional data centre tacked onto a foreign provider’s global network; it is a complete stack—control plane, data plane, identity systems, and audit logs—designed, owned, and operated in India by an Indian company.

“We are the world’s fastest‑growing tech economy, and that expansion demands infrastructure we truly control,” said Vishal Sirohi, Founder and CEO of Island Computing. “Sovereignty is not a limitation; it is a competitive advantage. Banks, government agencies, and developers can move fast without surrendering control of the stack that underpins their future. On this Independence Day, we are delivering India the digital independence it has long awaited.”

The figures make the case clear. Approximately 80 % of India’s US$26.4 billion cloud expenditure in 2026 goes to AWS, Microsoft Azure, Google Cloud, and other foreign providers, leaving critical workloads and data subject to jurisdictions outside India. For regulated sectors, this dependence is becoming harder to justify: the Digital Personal Data Protection Act, RBI’s data‑localisation directives, SEBI cloud advisories for capital markets, and CERT‑In’s six‑hour incident‑reporting rule are shaping a compliance environment that foreign‑hosted infrastructure—even with local data centres—cannot always satisfy. Island Computing says it incorporated MeitY compliance and these regulatory requirements into its architecture from day one.

Regarding performance, the platform provisions resources in 90 seconds, and production‑grade, highly scalable, fault‑tolerant applications can be deployed in as little as three minutes, with network topology, tenant isolation, autoscaling, observability, and identity configured automatically. In Island Computing’s published benchmark (islandcomputing.io), the company reports operating at 30 % lower cost than comparable configurations in AWS’s Mumbai region, before applying committed‑use or enterprise discounts.

“Sovereignty is woven into the architecture, not added as an afterthought,” said Lomash Kumar, CTO of Frontier Instruments and advisor to Island Computing. “For BFSI, healthcare, and government workloads, that distinction is crucial when earning trust for the most sensitive systems. Island Computing exemplifies the secure, sovereign, developer‑first infrastructure India should be building.”

Island Computing is now generally available to enterprises, government bodies, and builders across India, with partner onboarding beginning immediately for teams in BFSI, healthcare, telecom, public sector, IoT, SaaS, video, gaming, and agentic AI.

Built in India. Governed by India. Owned by India. On a day that commemorates independence, Island Computing asserts that it is ushering in the next chapter: digital sovereignty, constructed from the ground up.

About Island Computing

Founded by Vishal Sirohi and Bhavik Kothari, Island Computing brings together more than three decades of experience in building large‑scale cloud and distributed systems. Sirohi, the company’s Co‑Founder and CEO, previously served as a Principal Architect at AWS, while Bhavik Kothari, Co‑Founder and CTO, worked as a Principal Engineer at Amazon.

Island Computing is India’s first fully managed sovereign cloud, engineered from the ground up for the SaaS, AI, and agentic workloads of 2026. Established in 2025, the company is headquartered in Bengaluru, with engineers drawn from IIT, IIIT, and BITS. Its mission is to simplify computing for every Indian builder. Visit islandcomputing.io.

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