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## Company profile

STACKIT is the digital unit of Schwarz IT and the official cloud provider of the Schwarz Gruppe (for example `Lidl`, `Kaufland`). As a European, fully sovereign cloud platform, STACKIT delivers highly available Infrastructure-as-a-Service (IaaS) and Platform-as-a-Service (PaaS) from its own GDPR-compliant data centers located in Germany and Austria.

Serving as the technological foundation of the STACKIT Cloud Framework, STACKIT enables digital transformation without dependencies on non-European Hyperscaler providers.

## Technical core competencies & ecosystem

### Key facts

- **Platform Type:** Sovereign Cloud Provider (IaaS / PaaS)
- **Data Center Locations:** Germany and Austria (100% data residency)
- **Governance:** Complete digital sovereignty, fully independent of the US CLOUD Act

### Core services in the cloud framework

#### Enterprise compute & networking

- **STACKIT Compute:** Scalable virtual machines (VMs) based on proven enterprise virtualization.
- **Software-Defined Networking (SDN):** Isolated VPCs, routers, load balancers, and security groups for highly secure multi-tenant architectures.

#### Cloud-native & container orchestration

- **STACKIT Kubernetes Engine (SKE):** CNCF-certified, fully managed Kubernetes service for automated deployment and life cycle management of containerized workloads.
- **STACKIT Cloud Foundry:** Enterprise PaaS environment for rapid deployment of polyglot applications without operational overhead.

#### Sovereign data & storage services

- **Object Storage:** S3-compatible, highly redundant object storage for unstructured data and backups.
- **Managed Databases:** Automated provisioning and maintenance of relational and NoSQL databases (for example PostgreSQL, MariaDB, Redis) featuring automated patching and backup strategies.

## Sovereignty, security & compliance

- **GDPR Compliance:** Strict prohibition of data transfers to third countries; legal protection anchored within EU jurisdiction.
- **Certifications:** Operated under the highest security standards (including ISO 27001, with ongoing alignment for BSI C5 attestation).
- **Open-Source Foundation:** Mitigation of vendor lock-in through the strategic deployment of open standards (for example OpenStack, Kubernetes, Cloud Foundry).