However, mandating an Indian provider could also mean forfeiting some of the scale, technology, and investment available from global hyperscalers. The central question, then, is whether India needs a domestic alternative to AWS, Microsoft, and Google, or whether it simply requires sufficient control over both foreign and domestic providers to ensure the cloud is sovereign. The path India chooses will determine whether it builds a parallel domestic cloud ecosystem or creates sovereignty standards that both global and Indian providers can meet.