Sovereign core banking control plane
VaultAI turns sovereignty into executable control metadata: jurisdiction profiles, execution cells, bank-owned key custody, data-plane residency, deny-by-default egress, continuity drills, exit packages, and signed manifest proofs. This is the practical layer required before any regulated bank treats a cloud-native core as deployable infrastructure.
VaultAI does not rely on a generic cloud-native story. Each control answers a bank-level sovereignty question with a deployable artifact.
Can the bank operate, recover, and govern the platform without foreign operational dependency?
Deployment cells bind runtime, database, keys, telemetry, and administrator authority to a selected jurisdiction profile.
sovereign_execution_cells + sovereign_control_events
Can regulated data and metadata be kept inside the approved territory and tenancy?
Data-plane boundary, storage bucket policy, RLS, package manifests, and egress controls are modeled as machine-readable controls.
enterprise_data_vault + sovereign_jurisdiction_profiles
Can encryption keys remain under bank custody or approved trusted-party custody?
Each cell requires a key custody statement, rotation evidence, and release boundary before regulated workloads are admitted.
sovereign_key_profiles + key_rotation control events
Can the system keep operating locally through third-party, network, or legal disruption?
Continuity posture, exit package, fail-closed egress, local evidence exports, and recovery drills are first-class objects.
sovereign_continuity_drills + database health snapshots
Can the bank exit a provider without losing code, data, keys, logs, or operational runbooks?
VaultAI packages source, schemas, manifests, deployment definitions, and data-vault evidence into a buyer-controlled handover path.
AZT-ARP source vault + data-vault manifests + Terraform/Kubernetes assets
The same application can be deployed under different sovereign operating envelopes instead of pretending one global runtime fits every bank.
EU financial entities and critical ICT third-party risk require operational resilience, ICT risk management, incident response, testing, and third-party governance evidence.
EU-approved region, EU operational administrators, EU data storage, EU telemetry retention, and EU-approved subcontractor chain.
RBI-regulated entities using cloud or outsourced IT must manage outsourcing risk, business continuity, service-provider risk, multi-location processing, and exit strategy.
India-approved deployment boundary with bank-defined service-provider controls, BCP/DR procedures, exit plan, and local evidence retention.
Sovereign financial cloud deployments prioritize national control, local data handling, controlled infrastructure, and continuity for critical financial services.
National financial-cloud region, locally controlled infrastructure, locally retained telemetry, and cell-level continuity plan.
For banks that require private infrastructure, air-gapped operation, or country-specific regulator approval before external connectivity.
Bank-owned network, bank-operated runtime, bank-managed keys, no default internet egress, and offline package verification.
Each cell defines a bank-reviewable boundary. A workload that cannot match the selected cell should fail closed before regulated state is exposed.
| Cell | Mode | Data plane | Key custody | Egress |
|---|---|---|---|---|
EU DORA primary cell eu_dora | In-country cloud | EU-only object storage, database, cache, queue, logs, and evidence exports. | Bank-owned or bank-approved external key manager; no provider-owned root key for regulated data. | jurisdiction allowlist |
India RBI primary cell india_rbi | Private cloud | India-approved database, storage, audit logs, and operational telemetry. | Bank HSM/KMS or approved Indian trusted-party custody. | deny by default |
UAE sovereign financial cloud cell uae_sovereign | Sovereign partner | National financial cloud storage, runtime, logs, database, and AI-processing boundary. | Local sovereign KMS/HSM custody with cell-scoped derived credentials. | deny by default |
Bank-private air-gapped cell bank_private | Bank operated | Bank network only; no default external storage, telemetry, or AI calls. | Bank-owned HSM/KMS only. | deny by default |
These controls are the implementation bridge between a policy document and a deployment a bank can operate, recover, audit, and exit.
A workload declares its target sovereign cell; admission requires matching jurisdiction, region, key custody, storage boundary, and egress policy.
The bank can reject workloads that do not match its sovereignty policy before data or operations are exposed.
Production cells require buyer-owned or buyer-approved KMS/HSM root keys; VaultAI stores only references, evidence, and derived-operation metadata.
The software does not ask the bank to surrender root cryptographic authority to the software vendor.
Database, object storage, queue, cache, logs, telemetry, AI processing, and archive locations are recorded per cell.
Procurement and compliance teams can inspect where data and metadata are allowed to exist.
Critical banking operations treat external APIs as prohibited unless jurisdiction policy explicitly allows them.
A legal, network, or vendor outage cannot silently pull regulated operations outside the approved perimeter.
Continuity drills record RPO, RTO, restored state root, rejected dependencies, and responsible operator.
The bank gets resilience evidence that can be reviewed without relying only on vendor assurances.
Source vault, schema, package manifests, object hashes, deployment files, and audit chains are packaged for buyer-controlled handover.
The bank can evaluate vendor exit and substitutability before committing regulated workloads.
Jurisdiction events, key events, egress decisions, continuity drills, and deployment changes are hash-linked into a signed manifest.
Internal audit can verify a sovereignty-control history rather than reading only policy PDFs.
Account, posting, payment, customer-data, and resilience functions become easier to evaluate when every capability carries evidence and operating boundaries.
Define account, fee, interest, limit, and lifecycle rules without hardcoding product variants.
Product rules are bound to jurisdiction profiles so EU, India, UAE, or bank-private deployments can enforce local constraints.
policy_root + jurisdiction_profile_id + product_rule_digest
Record debits, credits, holds, reversals, fees, and settlement states with immutable evidence.
Posting admission checks the sovereign cell before committing regulated state transitions.
state_root + cell_id + content_merkle_root
Represent ISO 20022, legacy rails, internal transfers, and settlement workflows.
Rails can be enabled or denied per cell based on allowed region, data path, and operational dependency.
rail_policy_digest + semantic_transition_witness
Keep customer, account, document, and audit data separated by tenant and approved processing purpose.
Data residency, RLS, key custody, and retention rules become executable metadata rather than presentation-only policy.
organization_id + rls_policy + storage_boundary
Prove restore, rollback, audit continuity, and provider-exit readiness.
Each cell produces continuity and exit artifacts tied to the cell's jurisdiction and key custody model.
continuity_drill_root + exit_package_hash
It is not a regulator certification, not a licensed core banking replacement by itself, and not a substitute for buyer-side legal, operational, and supervisory approval.
Bank selects one or more sovereign execution cells. Each cell defines approved region, runtime mode, administrator boundary, data bucket, database shard, key custody, telemetry scope, and exit artifacts.
Open JSON manifest