CloudFerro, a Polish sovereign cloud provider, has presented Bastion, a sovereign cloud architecture developed for defence, civil security organisations and operators of critical infrastructure.
Rather than being a standalone product, Bastion represents an operational cloud architecture designed for organisations that require full control over sensitive workloads, secure processing environments and resilient deployment models.
The solution combines cloud computing, AI capabilities and Earth Observation data processing within infrastructures operating under European jurisdiction. It can be deployed in different operational scenarios, ranging from permanent installations to isolated environments supporting mission-critical operations.
Earth Observation data increasingly plays a central role in civil protection, crisis response and security applications. Satellite imagery, together with AI-assisted analytics, enables faster situational awareness, infrastructure monitoring and decision support during emergencies.
Bastion builds on CloudFerro’s long-standing experience in delivering cloud infrastructure for European Earth Observation programmes and demonstrates how technologies originally developed for the EO sector can also support emerging dual-use applications while maintaining interoperability with broader European digital ecosystems.
The initiative reflects the growing importance of sovereign digital infrastructure as part of Europe’s resilience strategy, where secure cloud environments become an integral element of operational services based on satellite data.
More on: https://cloudferro.com/news/cloudferro-for-defence-and-national-security/
