How it works
Conventional infrastructure means your provider holds your infrastructure, your credentials, and often your data. A court order against one provider is a court order against everything. Altostratus is built against this threat model.
The threat model
When you run infrastructure on a single provider — or even across multiple providers under a single identity — you have created a single point of compellability. One valid legal order, one warrant, one government request to one provider is sufficient to access everything: your instance list, your credentials, your account identity, your billing record. The provider can be compelled to produce all of it. You have no visibility into when this happens and no ability to stop it.
This is not a hypothetical. Cloud providers regularly receive and comply with legal demands across jurisdictions. Most have legal teams whose job is to process these requests efficiently.
The conventional response — "we'll fight for your data" — is a policy, not an architecture. Policies change. Architectures don't.
Control plane
Altostratus sits between you and your infrastructure providers. It is an orchestration layer — it knows what infrastructure exists, where it runs, and its operational state. It does not have access to what runs on that infrastructure, what data it holds, or what your users do.
The control plane knows your infrastructure exists. It cannot see what runs on it, what data it holds, or what your operators do.
Between instances, WireGuard provides encrypted tunnels at the network layer. Between services, mutual TLS provides authenticated, encrypted channels. In both cases, Altostratus configures the encryption — it does not terminate it or hold the session keys.
The Sovereignty Stack
Infrastructure sovereignty isn't a feature — it's a set of architectural properties that either all hold or none of them do.
No PII at any layer. Authentication is handle-based — email address, no phone number, no government identity. Billing is anonymous by design: cryptocurrency only, no credit card, no bank association. Even Altostratus itself holds no record that connects your account to a real-world identity. A court order cannot produce what was never collected.
Your workloads run on infrastructure you control, at providers you choose, under credentials you supply. Altostratus is the control plane — it orchestrates, it doesn't host. Your data is not on our infrastructure. Our infrastructure is the management layer between you and yours.
Infrastructure distributed across multiple providers in multiple jurisdictions means no single legal order reaches all of it. A warrant served on Provider A reaches what runs in Provider A's jurisdiction — and nothing else. The more distributed your deployment, the higher the coordination cost of any adversarial action against it.
Provider strategy
A reseller gives you one provider. Altostratus gives you sovereign distribution across a curated set of infrastructure ecosystems: sovereignty-first hosting in privacy jurisdictions, European infrastructure with strong data residency protections, distributed compute with no single datacenter dependency, and major commercial clouds for operators who need global reach.
Each provider account uses credentials you supply. Those credentials are encrypted at rest server-side and decrypted only when you initiate infrastructure operations. Each provider sees only the resources you've provisioned with them — not your account at other providers, not your Altostratus identity, not your billing relationship.
Provider details — which providers are supported, under what terms — are available after access is granted. We don't publish the full integration list publicly.
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