Synapse-7® Sovereign Vault
A cloud estate you own.
In UK regions. Exit-ready.
A cloud migration can leave you with a bill and a dependency. The Sovereign Vault hands you the keys: a Zero-Trust estate built in code, with data residency enforced at platform level and a Continuity Codex so any capable team can take it over when you choose. Fixed fee. No lock-in. That is contractual.
Four principles.
Every Sovereign Vault is built to the same architecture. These are the conditions under which the estate is built, and any deviation requires a documented exception, signed off by both parties before work begins.
Built in code
The entire estate is defined as infrastructure-as-code. Every configuration decision is recorded, version-controlled, and reproducible. Nothing exists only in someone's head or in a vendor's portal.
Zero Trust, zero standing access
No account holds permanent privileged access to production. Every administrative action requires just-in-time elevation, is logged, and expires automatically. Standing access is a common route into an estate, so it is designed out from the start.
Data residency enforced by policy
Data residency is enforced at the Azure Policy layer, not by convention or configuration. A policy violation is a deployment failure, so the platform will not let the estate be misconfigured into moving data across the UK border.
Exit ready from day one
On handover you receive the Continuity Codex: complete documentation of the estate, structured so that any competent team, yours or anyone else's, can take it over without Echo 7. You are never dependent on us to operate it. That is contractual, not a courtesy.
What you receive on handover.
The Sovereign Vault is not complete until you can operate it without us. Handover is a defined milestone, not an ongoing process.
- Infrastructure-as-code repository Full Bicep codebase defining every resource in the estate.
- Continuity Codex Operational documentation structured for handover, not as a reference for insiders.
- Runbook library Step-by-step procedures for every routine and recovery operation.
- Access inventory Full record of every account, role, and permission in the estate.
- Policy register Every Azure Policy assignment documented with rationale and exception log.
- Architecture decision records The reasoning behind every significant design choice, available to your successors.
The Synapse-7® architecture has been independently reviewed by an external enterprise architect.
Questions about the Sovereign Vault.
What is a UK-resident Azure environment?
It is an Azure estate where your data and workloads sit in the UK regions, UK South and UK West, and the platform refuses any deployment outside them.
Is a UK data residency clause in a contract enough?
A clause says where your data should be. Azure Policy decides where it can be. The Vault relies on the policy, so a non-compliant deployment is refused when it is attempted, and does not wait to be found in an audit. Our article on UK data residency explains the difference.
Who owns the estate after handover?
You do. Echo 7 keeps no administrative access, and the Continuity Codex records everything a replacement team needs.
How is the fee set?
As a fixed fee, scoped from the findings of the Sovereignty Index®, so you know the figure before you commit. The reasoning is in Fixed Fee vs Hourly.
Who is the Vault for?
UK mid-market organisations that need to know where their data sits and who can reach it, and that want to be able to change provider without a rebuild.
Not a managed service. Not a migration project.
A managed service provider keeps your estate running. A migration project moves your data from one place to another. Neither gives you sovereignty. Each leaves you with a different dependency.
The Sovereign Vault is a fixed-fee build that ends with you in full possession of your own estate. Echo 7 does not retain administrative access after handover. We have no commercial interest in your continued dependency, quite the opposite. Your ability to walk away is the proof that it worked.
You can leave at any time. That is contractual.
The Vault follows the Index.
The Sovereign Vault is scoped to what the Sovereignty Index® found. The diagnostic produces a prioritised set of findings and the Vault addresses them. You know the fixed fee before committing to either engagement.