For regulated industries
Run your software where the rules say.
Banks, hospitals, logistics and public offices have rules about where data may live. Akua runs your software right there: in your own cloud, in your own country, with your own keys. The audit record is written for you.
The rule
The first question is: where does it run?
- Finance DORA
Banks must show who runs each critical service, and how they could leave it.
- Health Patient data
Patient records must stay in the country. The auditor asks who the provider is.
- Logistics Customer contracts
Big customers want the software on their own servers. It is in the contract.
- Public sector Procurement
Tenders say where the data must live before they say what the software does.
The usual answers
Three ways to lose.
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Buy the SaaS anyway
A risk the auditor finds next year.
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Build your own platform
Five engineers and eighteen months before the first app runs.
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Do nothing
The team keeps using the spreadsheet.
The fourth way: run it where the rules say, without building a platform yourself.
What stays with you
Four things you keep.
Your software runs on infrastructure you choose. Akua brings the platform. You keep the provider, the country, the keys and the way out.
The provider
Your own cloud account, a cluster you already have, or servers in your own building.
The country
You choose the region. Nothing runs anywhere you did not choose.
The keys
Secrets stay in your workspace. You give access, and you take it away.
The way out
Cut the connection to Akua. Your software keeps running on your own systems.
Why now
Regulation makes control a buying criterion.
Not a retreat from the cloud, but a conscious choice of where things run. The Deutsche Bundesbank calls it Cloud First, Smart Placement.
Independence
- No lock-in.
- Less platform dependency.
Demand
- Regulated industries.
- Sensitive data.
Law
- GDPR
- DORA
- EU AI Act
- EU Data Act
- Health Sensitive data
- Finance Regulated systems
- Industry Critical processes
- Public sector Digital sovereignty
Deutsche Bundesbank, April 2026: "Cloud First, Smart Placement".
By design
Sovereignty the architecture can prove.
Not a setting, not a promise on a roadmap. What Akua is built on.
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The cluster is yours
Akua runs on Kubernetes in your account or on your hardware. The machines, the cluster and the data stay under your control.
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Standard formats only
Deployments are standard Kubernetes resources and Helm charts, not a proprietary format you would have to leave behind.
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The export path exists
Take your kubeconfig, your charts and your images to any other Kubernetes cluster. Leaving is a decision, not a project.
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No markup on compute
You pay Hetzner, AWS or your data center directly at their prices. Akua charges only for the control plane.
In pilot
Built with companies that have auditors.
Two clinic applications, a logistics software vendor and a precious-metals trader are testing Akua because their contracts say the software must run on servers they control. We name partners once they agree.
Questions
Questions your compliance team will ask.
Clear answers about deployment, control, and what your team keeps.
Can it run only on our own servers?
Yes. Connect your own servers and nothing leaves your building. Akua only sends updates you approve. Akua never connects into your systems on its own.
What does the auditor see?
For every install: a repository with every change, a log of who did what, and the provider, country and account it runs on. You can read all of it without Akua.
Which providers work today?
Servers managed by Akua on Hetzner Cloud, your own Hetzner account, any Kubernetes cluster you already have, and servers you connect yourself.
Do our people need to learn Kubernetes?
No. They fill in a setup screen or ask an agent. Kubernetes runs underneath, the same way for every app.
What if Akua disappears?
Your clusters, repositories and images are standard. They stay yours, and everything keeps running. That is the exit plan the regulator asks for.
Run it where the rules say.
Start this week.
Free to start on a managed server, or on your own cloud account from day one.