Gravitee and Clever Cloud deliver an open source control plane deployable anywhere, ensuring European AI operates strictly on your terms.
LILLE, FRANCE, July 23, 2026 /EINPresswire.com/ — Gravitee™, the AI agent management platform, today revealed a strategic alliance with Clever Cloud, the French cloud provider, to introduce a sovereign control plane for AI running entirely on European infrastructure.
This collaboration merges Gravitee’s AI Gateway and Authorization Management with Clever Cloud’s French platform. The result gives European public bodies and regulated enterprises a secure framework to oversee their AI consumption and output, without locking their architecture into a single AI model or legal jurisdiction.
The timing is urgent. 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 accessible in the morning and gone by evening for all customers, with no transition period. This marks the first time a government has broadly deactivated a live, commercial, state-of-the-art AI model, fundamentally reshaping the definition of AI sovereignty: a model may operate in an approved region on compliant infrastructure, yet still be disabled instantly based on user access restrictions.
This is not an isolated event. In 2024, OpenAI cut off ChatGPT and its API for users in China, Russia, and Iran, responding to U.S. export limits with roughly two weeks’ notice. The June 2026 Anthropic suspension eliminated that warning period entirely: models were live in the morning and deactivated that evening for all affected users worldwide.
“When the suspension order came down, the AI lab most committed to safety had just one option: shut off the model for everyone, everywhere. No targeting, no transition, no warning. Your architecture must be more resilient than the model it relies on,” said Rory Blundell, CEO of Gravitee. “Most discussions about AI sovereignty stop at where data or the model resides, but that misses the real point. The true sovereign asset is the control plane placed upstream of those models—the one governing who can access them, what data leaves, and how quickly you can reroute traffic when a model suddenly vanishes. With Clever Cloud, we’re putting that control plane on European infrastructure, backed by an open source foundation that organizations can inspect and operate themselves.”
A stable access point. Any model. Fully sovereign infrastructure.
Standardizing an architecture around a single top-tier model might seem like a logical technical move—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 removed, swapping it becomes a configuration change rather than a catastrophic service outage.
The partnership delivers four key capabilities:
Unified, multi-provider governance: Gravitee’s AI Gateway presents 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 run independently of any vendor, with no exclusive dependencies. You cannot achieve sovereignty with a black box.
Deployment anywhere, including fully air-gapped environments: Position your control plane exactly where needed. The architecture can be deployed entirely on Clever Cloud, other cloud providers, on-premises, or in fully disconnected, isolated environments.
Data control at the perimeter: True sovereignty concerns 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 a given model and what data is permitted to exit.
Offered as a SaaS solution on Clever Cloud, the platform is architected to meet the SEAL-3 level (technological autonomy) of the European Union’s cloud sovereignty framework.
“Europe won’t 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 infrastructure, on-premises, or in fully isolated environments. This versatility is essential for building AI systems that remain resilient against geopolitical events, vendor decisions, or technology shifts, while giving organizations full control over their infrastructure,” said Quentin Adam, CEO of Clever Cloud.
Gravitee on Clever Cloud is currently being validated for production use; availability details will be announced later. Organizations looking 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 managing APIs, events, and AI agents. 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, offering a free, open source Community Edition alongside paid Enterprise editions. Gravitee serves over 350 enterprise customers across more than 30 countries and is recognized as a Leader in the 2025 Gartner® Magic Quadrant™ for
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