Gravitee has announced a strategic partnership with French cloud provider Clever Cloud to deliver a sovereign AI control plane built entirely on European infrastructure. The collaboration combines Gravitee's AI management capabilities with Clever Cloud's sovereign cloud platform, enabling public sector organizations and regulated enterprises to govern AI models, data, and access while reducing dependency on a single AI provider or jurisdiction. The partnership addresses growing concerns around AI sovereignty, regulatory uncertainty, and operational resilience as organizations increasingly deploy AI at scale.
Gravitee and Clever Cloud have joined forces to provide a European-based AI control plane that allows enterprises and government organizations to securely manage AI services while maintaining infrastructure sovereignty. The platform combines Gravitee's AI Gateway and Authorization Management with Clever Cloud's France-hosted cloud platform, offering centralized governance for AI consumption and production.
The partnership is designed to help organizations avoid dependence on a single AI provider while ensuring compliance with evolving regulatory and geopolitical requirements.
The announcement comes amid increasing concerns surrounding AI service availability and government-imposed restrictions. Gravitee highlighted recent export control actions that affected access to frontier AI models, demonstrating how organizations relying on a single AI provider may face unexpected operational disruptions.
According to Gravitee, these events reinforce the importance of building resilient AI architectures capable of switching providers without requiring application redesign.
"When the suspension order came, the most safety-focused AI lab in the world had only one lever: shut the model off for everyone, everywhere. No targeting, no transition, no warning. Your architecture needs to be more resilient than the model it depends on," said Rory Blundell, CEO of Gravitee. "Most sovereign AI conversations stop at where the data or model runs, but that misses the point. The true sovereign asset is the control plane sitting in front of those models; managing who can call it, what data leaves, and how fast you can reroute traffic when a model suddenly disappears. Together with Clever Cloud, we are putting that control plane on European infrastructure, with an open-source core that organizations can inspect and run themselves."
The joint platform introduces a unified AI Gateway that provides a single endpoint for managing access to multiple AI providers, including Anthropic, AWS Bedrock, OpenAI, Google Gemini, and Vertex AI. Through virtual models and automated failover capabilities, organizations can redirect AI workloads if a provider becomes unavailable, minimizing operational disruption.
Gravitee also emphasizes its open-source architecture, enabling enterprises to inspect, customize, and operate the platform independently while reducing vendor lock-in.
The solution supports deployment across Clever Cloud, third-party cloud environments, on-premises infrastructure, and fully air-gapped environments. Organizations can implement the platform according to their security, compliance, and operational requirements.
Gravitee Authorization Management adds identity-aware access controls at the gateway level, allowing administrators to define which users and AI agents can access specific AI models and what data can leave organizational boundaries.
The SaaS offering is currently being architected toward SEAL-3 (technological autonomy) under the European Union's sovereign cloud framework.
"Europe will not industrialise AI by relying on isolated technologies, but by assembling a complete industrial ecosystem. This partnership gives Gravitee customers the ability to run their AI control plane on a European cloud platform designed for production, while preserving the freedom to deploy the same architecture on partner infrastructures, on-premises or in fully air-gapped environments. That versatility is essential to building AI systems that remain resilient in the face of geopolitical events, supplier decisions or technological change, while keeping organisations in full control of their infrastructure,” says Quentin Adam, Clever Cloud CEO.
As organizations accelerate AI adoption across regulated industries, sovereign AI infrastructure is becoming increasingly important for maintaining operational continuity, governance, and compliance. The Gravitee-Clever Cloud partnership provides enterprises with a flexible AI management layer that supports multiple AI providers while enabling secure deployments across diverse infrastructure environments.
Production validation of the platform is currently underway, with broader availability details expected in the future.
Gravitee is the unified platform for API, event, and AI agent management. Founded in 2015 in Lille, France, Gravitee gives organisations one control plane to secure, govern, and observe agents, APIs, and event streams. The company operates an open-core model, with a free, open-source Community edition and paid Enterprise editions. Gravitee serves more than 350 enterprise customers across more than 30 countries and is recognised as a Leader in the 2025 Gartner® Magic Quadrant™ for API Management and as a Representative Vendor in the Gartner® Market Guide for AI Gateways. Learn more at https://www.gravitee.io.
Clever Cloud is a French cloud provider that has built a cloud for deploying, hosting, and operating applications, managed services, and AI solutions. Its versatile platform can run on Clever Cloud's sovereign public cloud, partner infrastructures, third-party clouds, or directly on customers' own on-premises and edge environments. It enables organisations to accelerate their digital transformation while maintaining full control over their infrastructure and data.
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