Red Hat, dedicated to open source solutions for companies, will soon host the European digital sovereignty to supportthanks to your initiative Red Hat Confirmed Sovereign Support.
The company will offer sovereign support to the 27 members of the European Union. It is specifically designed to offer dedicated technical support, managed by EU citizens and from within the EU, for Red Hat software subscriptions. In this way, the company offers a new level of certified local control over critical IT operations.
Therefore, Red Hat Confirmed Sovereign Support is designed to address the growing demand for operational European sovereignty from various sectors of the EU. It is based on Red hat’s experience in delivering support models for specific regions and industries.
This support is specialized in working with clients who operate in highly regulated markets or who face strict regulatory compliance requirements.
Red Hat Confirmed Sovereign Support makes it easy to improve system security while helping to protect the operations of EU organizations.
When available, it will offer high levels of technical expertise with localized support staff and more independence from non-EU dynamics to the company’s EU cloud customers and partners, currently more than 500. This improves operational resilience and supports business continuity objectives.
The staff providing this type of support will be accredited, and will be responsible for both supervision and management of the provision of support services within the EU. It will be available in all of them 24/7, in line with the requirements of sovereignty and continuity of service.
Many of Red Hat’s cloud partners currently offer sovereign clouds, and the network they comprise helps reduce dependence on non-community hyperscalers. Thus, the clients of these partners have local alternatives in line with the regulatory policies of the area, as well as their economic priorities.
Additionally, Confirmed Sovereign Support is intended to be the foundation for Red Hat’s broader open hybrid cloud and AI portfolios. This will enable organizations to deploy, run and maintain their current and future IT infrastructures, independently, in any sovereign cloud environment.
This Red Hat sovereign support initiative will be available from early 2026, and company customers interested in using it will have to inquire through their local account executive.
Chris Wright, CTO and Vice President of Global Engineering at Red Hathas highlighted that «Navigating the EU’s strict regulatory and compliance frameworks requires a transparent, auditable and open source-based foundation, as well as a local operational support model. Red Hat Confirmed Sovereign Support offers just that: a support experience fully anchored in the EU, managed by EU citizens for EU organizations, backed by the trust of our open hybrid cloud portfolio.”.
