Sovereign Cloud Platform manual›Sovereign Cloud Platform overview
The Sovereign Cloud Platform is the foundation under your Community Collaboration Platform. Open Social hosts, maintains, updates and monitors your platform, so your team can focus on the community instead of the infrastructure.
Two ways to run it
| Option | What it means |
|---|---|
| Hosted by Open Social | Fully managed SaaS in the European Economic Area. You run no infrastructure yourself. |
| In your sovereign environment | The platform is deployed in a sovereign cloud environment chosen by your organisation, for example a government cloud. Ask your customer success manager about the options. |
What is included
- Managed hosting: a dedicated environment for your platform, with monitoring included.
- Updates and maintenance: security updates and new releases of the platform, without work on your side.
- Backups: encrypted backups stored off-site within the European Economic Area.
- Security: Open Social is ISO 27001 certified for the whole organisation, including hosting, development and support.
- Single sign-on: connect your own identity provider. See Single sign-on (SSO).
In this manual
- Hosting and data location: where your data lives and which providers we use.
- Security and compliance: certification, data protection and the documents you can request.
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