NTT DATA Achieves AWS Digital Sovereignty Certification

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Introduction to Digital Sovereignty in the Cloud

Over the past decade, organizations' digital transformation initiatives have increasingly focused on adopting cloud technologies, bringing significant advantages and new challenges. Organizations recognized the critical need to maintain control over their digital assets, protect data, and ensure sovereignty. Leading cloud providers responded to these challenges by developing targeted solutions, starting with addressing the specific demands of the public sector and highly regulated industries.

With the increasing demand for robust cloud solutions that comply with regulatory requirements, many organizations have struggled to navigate complex policies and regulations. These obstacles have often strained their resources and expertise, necessitating cost-effective strategies to achieve their digital sovereignty goals.

AWS Digital Sovereignty Competency

In this challenging landscape, AWS, a leading provider of IaaS and PaaS services, became the first cloud provider to introduce dedicated services that empower clients to manage data sovereignty effectively. In 2024, AWS has taken another step to empower all its clients to manage digital sovereignty.

AWS recently announced the AWS Digital Sovereignty Competency — an AWS specialization initiative designed to help organizations connect with partners, including NTT DATA. This specialization enables organizations to adopt cloud solutions effectively while meeting regulatory and compliance requirements.

NTT DATA as a Key AWS Partner

As an AWS partner, NTT DATA recognizes its crucial role in bringing innovation to clients while meeting mandatory requirements. By mastering the AWS Digital Sovereignty Competency, NTT DATA reaffirms its commitment to AWS and delivering the best solutions to clients. We provide access to the local expertise of our professionals, our capabilities, and the ability to offer managed services on AWS. Together, AWS and NTT DATA empower clients with greater managerial autonomy and choice without compromising the potential of cloud services.

AWS’s approach to digital sovereignty, as endorsed by NTT DATA, focuses on developing tailored services within the AWS Cloud to ensure sovereignty and compliance. Clients are offered the industry’s most advanced set of sovereignty controls and capabilities. This approach enables clients to have greater independence and control over their operations without compromising performance, innovation, security, or the scalability of AWS Cloud. The AWS Digital Sovereignty Competency is an additional component of this commitment.

Solutions provided by AWS Digital Sovereignty Competency Partners leverage AWS technologies, embedded controls, and security features, offering clients additional advantages. NTT DATA brings a comprehensive knowledge of local regulations to simplify the process of meeting digital sovereignty requirements.

NTT DATA's Digital Sovereignty Assessment evaluates an organization's control over its digital infrastructure, data, and technology through the analysis of key areas such as data governance, technological dependencies, security, and compliance with local and international regulations. The process includes assigning objectives and scope, analyzing governance and legal compliance, assessing technological infrastructure and dependencies, evaluating data ownership, and establishing a roadmap to achieve digital sovereignty.

NTT DATA provides the market with a comprehensive approach to digital sovereignty management, enabling organizations to enhance their position regardless of their current state. Our cloud architects and engineers’ expertise in AWS services allows us to support organizations from the very initial stages through the adoption of sophisticated services in demanding environments. NTT DATA’s cloud cybersecurity team collaborates closely with cloud architects and engineers to design and implement tailored solutions.

Over the next five years, NTT DATA aims to lead mature AWS adoption processes where digital sovereignty management is a design and implementation requirement, tailored to the industries and regions where clients operate. AWS and NTT DATA clients will experience a streamlined and unified cloud adoption process designed to address their digital sovereignty needs with clarity and efficiency.

NTT DATA offers the market a comprehensive and flexible portfolio of cloud adoption services. These include end-to-end solutions for managing digital sovereignty and specific services for organizations looking to assess their maturity level in digital sovereignty management.

By combining AWS cloud services with NTT DATA’s professional expertise, organizations can effectively manage their digital sovereignty across multiple countries and regions, ensuring compliance, security, and operational efficiency.