Digital Sovereignty
Full control over your data, infrastructure, and digital strategy with an independent European cloud stack.
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Apeiro Reference Architecture
SAP develops ApeiroRA to help strengthen Europe’s digital sovereignty by providing key technology components for a common cloud-to-edge infrastructure. Together with other IPCEI-CIS participants, SAP is laying the foundation for cloud technologies that are provider-independent and rooted in European values, securing Europe’s long-term competitiveness in the digital economy.
Sovereign Cloud Architecture for European Businesses
Connected Clouds
Deploy workloads anywhere from centralized cloud to distributed edge with unified management. Coherent operations across heterogeneous infrastructure reduce complexity for operators and developers.
Architectural Documentation
Open by Design
Built on proven open-source foundations, not proprietary black boxes. Transparent, auditable, and backed by thriving communities.
Getting Started
AI-Ready Infrastructure
Enable responsible AI deployment with agentic operations and modular extensions. Visibility into operations increases trust and reduces complexity.
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Sustainable Operations
Reduce your carbon footprint with energy-transparent scheduling and automated power management. Digital twin technology and metrics-driven insights optimize efficiency across the entire continuum.
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Collaborative Ecosystem
A large ecosystem of organizations building shared infrastructure together reduces single provider dependency.
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Connected Clouds
Deploy workloads anywhere from centralized cloud to distributed edge with unified management. Coherent operations across heterogeneous infrastructure reduce complexity for operators and developers.
Architectural DocumentationOpen by Design
Built on proven open-source foundations, not proprietary black boxes. Transparent, auditable, and backed by thriving communities.
Getting StartedAI-Ready Infrastructure
Enable responsible AI deployment with agentic operations and modular extensions. Visibility into operations increases trust and reduces complexity.
More about AISustainable Operations
Reduce your carbon footprint with energy-transparent scheduling and automated power management. Digital twin technology and metrics-driven insights optimize efficiency across the entire continuum.
More about SustainabilityCollaborative Ecosystem
A large ecosystem of organizations building shared infrastructure together reduces single provider dependency.
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Our mission
ApeiroRA is the Apeiro Reference Architecture
The project aims to develop a reference blueprint for an open, flexible, powerful, secure, and compliant next generation cloud-edge continuum. The reference will be made available in true open source as a straightaway usable construction kit that provides blueprints and re-usable components for central building blocks. It forms the centerpiece proposal for all EU participants to align on joint interoperability standards. ApeiroRA therefore will provide a strong fundament for conformance, future software development, compatible deployments, and usage of interoperable cloud services reinforcing the common target of a cloud-edge continuum in Europe.
Yes, Apeiro Reference Architecture is created open!
ApeiroRA’s development mode is not the Cathedral, but is characterized by decentralized collaboration, open transparency, and rapid iteration in open source. Projects developed in ApeiroRA are made available under enterprise friendly open-source licenses and standards, and where appropriate, the projects are planned to be moved under neutral community governance. All projects aim to contribute and collaborate with other accepted and defining open-source projects, for example from the Linux Foundation, Cloud Native Computing Foundation, Eclipse Foundation or Apache Software Foundation, which together form a de-facto (EU-wide) digital commons.
ApeiroRA produces digital sovereignty at scale by offering a common baseline of well-accepted open standards without boiling the ocean or re-inventing the wheel. The ApeiroRa project is investing and providing the first step. You can shape the next step with us!
News
NeoNephos Presentation at Summit On European Digital Sovereignty Side Event on YouTube
2025-12-04
Our presentation at the Role of Open Source to advance the Sovereign Cloud Edge Continuum side event of the Summit on European Digital Sover...
ApeiroRA presents at ACM IMC 2025
2025-10-30
At the 25th ACM Internet Measurement Conference (IMC) 2025, Arno Uhlig presents the paper "The SAP Cloud Infrastructure Dataset: A Real...
2025 API World Award won by ORD
2025-07-18
We’re excited to announce that Open Resource Discovery has won the 2025 API Award in the Best in API Standards & Specifications category...
ApeiroRA Documentation Updated!
2025-07-01
Today marks our Q2 release of the Apeiro Reference Architecture Documentation This extends our technical manual with many additional topics....
