A control plane that is open source and deployable anywhere, ensuring European AI operates strictly on your own terms, is being offered by Gravitee and Clever Cloud.
LILLE, FRANCE, July 23, 2026 /EINPresswire.com/ — Today, Gravitee™, the AI agent management platform, revealed a strategic alliance with Clever Cloud, the French cloud provider, to deliver a sovereign control plane for AI that runs entirely on European infrastructure.
This collaboration merges Gravitee’s AI Gateway and Authorization Management capabilities with Clever Cloud’s French platform. The result provides European public institutions and regulated enterprises with a secure framework to manage their AI consumption and output, without locking their architecture into a single AI model or jurisdiction.
The timing is crucial. On June 12, 2026, a U.S. government export control directive forced the suspension of two cutting-edge AI models for foreign nationals worldwide. Those models were available in the morning and gone by evening for all customers, with no transition period. This marks the first time a government has broadly pulled an active, commercial, state-of-the-art AI model, fundamentally redefining AI sovereignty: a model can operate in an approved region on compliant infrastructure, yet be instantly disabled based on user access restrictions.
This is not an isolated event. In 2024, OpenAI cut off access to ChatGPT and its API for users in China, Russia, and Iran, responding to U.S. export restrictions with roughly two weeks’ notice. Anthropic’s June 2026 suspension eliminated that notice period: models were live in the morning and deactivated by evening for all affected users worldwide.
“When the suspension order came down, the AI lab most committed to safety had only one lever: cut the model for everyone, everywhere. No targeting, no transition, no warning. Your architecture needs to be more resilient than the model it depends on,” stated Rory Blundell, CEO of Gravitee. “Most discussions about AI sovereignty stop at where data or the model resides, but that misses the point. The true sovereign asset is the control plane placed upstream of those models—the one managing who can access them, what data leaves, and how fast you can reroute traffic when a model suddenly vanishes. With Clever Cloud, we are placing that control plane on European infrastructure, with an open-source foundation that organizations can inspect and operate themselves.”
A stable access point. Any model. 100% sovereign infrastructure.
Standardizing an architecture around a single cutting-edge model may seem like a logical technical decision—until a sudden regulatory shift turns that model into a single point of failure. Gravitee introduces a governed abstraction layer between applications and LLM providers. If a model is abruptly withdrawn, swapping it becomes a simple configuration change rather than a catastrophic service outage.
The partnership delivers four capabilities:
Unified, multi-provider governance: Gravitee’s AI Gateway provides a single, governed access point to all major providers (Anthropic, AWS Bedrock, OpenAI, Google Gemini and Vertex AI). Virtual models and automated fallback routes let teams instantly redirect traffic if a provider fails, without rewriting application code.
True open-source independence: Open source is the ultimate prerequisite for technological sovereignty. Gravitee offers a fully transparent, open-source platform that you can operate independently of any vendor, without exclusive dependency. You cannot have sovereignty over a black box.
Deployable anywhere, including fully air-gapped environments: Place your control plane exactly where needed. The architecture can be fully deployed on Clever Cloud, other cloud providers, on-premises, or in completely disconnected, isolated environments.
Data control at the perimeter: True sovereignty is about data crossing your boundary, not just where it resides. Gravitee Authorization Management enforces precise, identity-based access controls directly at the gateway, determining exactly which users and AI agents can query which models, and what data is allowed to exit.
Offered as a SaaS on Clever Cloud, the platform is architected to reach the SEAL-3 level (technological autonomy) of the European Union’s cloud sovereignty framework.
“Europe will not industrialize AI by relying on isolated technologies, but by building a complete industrial ecosystem. This partnership gives Gravitee customers the ability to run their AI control plane on a European cloud platform built for production, while retaining the freedom to deploy the same architecture on partner infrastructures, on-premises, or in fully isolated environments. This versatility is essential for building AI systems that remain resilient against geopolitical events, vendor decisions, or technological shifts, while leaving organizations in full control of their infrastructure,” said Quentin Adam, CEO of Clever Cloud.
Gravitee on Clever Cloud is currently being validated for production readiness; availability details will be announced later. Organizations wishing to assess their exposure to single-model concentration risk can request a model resilience review from the Gravitee team at Gravitee.io.
About Gravitee
Gravitee is the unified platform for API, event, and AI agent management. Founded in 2015 in Lille, France, Gravitee provides organizations with a single control plane to secure, govern, and monitor their agents, APIs, and event streams. The company operates on an open-core model, with a free, open-source Community edition and paid Enterprise editions. Gravitee serves over 350 enterprise clients in more than 30 countries and is recognized as a Leader in the 2025 Gartner® Magic Quadrant™ for
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