In India, cloud compliance often ties into multiple obligations such as:

Data residency & sovereignty — sensitive or personal data must remain within India’s borders or meet regulatory conditions.

Sectoral rules — RBI, IRDAI, CERT-In & MeitY guidelines apply to specific industries.

New privacy regime — Digital Personal Data Protection Rules, 2025 create formal rights and duties for data storage, processing, breach reporting, and cross-border transfer.

Use private cloud or sovereign deployment for regulated/sensitive workloads and public cloud for agility/scale where compliance risk is lower — ideally orchestrated via hybrid cloud governance.