Maximize the value of your STACKIT sovereign cloud and start your Sovereign Cloud Journey with Rackspace as your experienced multi cloud partner
Fast implementation. True digital sovereignty. Measurable business results. As a leading multicloud service provider, Rackspace Technology helps European organizations leverage the STACKIT sovereign cloud with EU-based expert teams and highly automated processes.
Why Rackspace + STACKIT is an ideal choice
Our STACKIT service offering includes these advantages:
Objectives, scope and maturity baseline
Understand sovereign risks from both supplier and customer side. Define your sovereign objectives, sovereign scope and assess current vs. target maturity.
- Risk awareness
- Sovereign objectives
- Scope definition
- Maturity assessment
Sovereign Scope Cloud Readiness Assessment
In the readiness assessment, we evaluate the workload demands of your Sovereign Scope and review your organization’s security architecture and operational readiness.
- Data readiness
- Application and workload readiness
- Security and compliance readiness
- Governance and operating model readiness
- Organizational readiness
Sovereign strategy and roadmap
Translate objectives and assessment insights into an actionable sovereign strategy — including policies, blueprint architectures, SOPs and a prioritized implementation roadmap.
- Strategy document
- Blueprint architectures
- Implementation roadmap
Build and secure the foundation
Build your sovereign landing zone on AWS EU Sovereign Cloud, define operational processes and implement the required security architectures.
- Deployed landing zone
- Operational processes
- Security architecture
Our services for STACKIT — from platform to security
We develop a strong platform and landing zone aligned with your sovereign cloud strategy, including:
- Definition of target vision with governance guardrails for network, identities and access
- Security and compliance baselines as code
- Fully automated landing zone with CI/CD pipeline
- Operational governance and cost controls from the outset
Rackspace delivers comprehensive migration services — from strategy to full implementation, including:
- Portfolio assessment with 6R migration pattern and prioritization
- TCO analysis and business case development
- Automated wave planning with change and cutover management
- Integration into existing IT and security processes
- KPI-based performance measurements for time, quality and costs
Modernization during or after migration for maximum cloud benefits, including:
- Breaking down monolithic applications into microservice architectures
- Containerization, orchestration, and API-first design
- Legacy replacement (e.g., mainframe) with cloud-native solutions
- Performance, reliability, and cost optimization with SLO/SLI
Development of analytics and AI use cases for data-driven innovation with European data sovereignty based on business requirements, including:
- Data and AI strategy development with use case backlog and value scoring
- Modern data platforms builds using lakehouse patterns
- Analytics, machine learning and generative AI use case implementation
- Continuous value measurement with KPIs and ROI tracking
Deployment of flexible, secure and cost-optimized operating models, including:
- 24x7x365 operation with SRE practices and runbook automation
- FinOps for cost transparency, showbacks and chargebacks, and rightsizing
- Sovereignty and industry-specific compliance
- Continuous optimization of security, performance and costs
Holistic protection for sovereign environments
Comprehensive security concepts for critical infrastructures:
- Zero trust architectures and identity and access management
- Prevention, detection and response with SIEM and SOAR integration
- Key management and compliance controls as code
- Red and blue team methods and business continuity planning
Ready for your sovereign cloud transformation?
Discover your potential with STACKIT + Rackspace
Let us show you how Fast Start, migration, modernization and managed services can work for you in a compact scoping workshop.