Sovereignty

Sovereignty on Volt means your inference runs in a specific metro, your data never leaves it, and you can prove it. It is enforced at three layers: the data plane (zero egress), the control plane (sovereignty profile), and the SDK (client-side).

The sovereign tier

Spark offers two tiers:

The sovereign tier is ~55% above standard — still 45% below AWS Bedrock ($2.65/M).

Turning it on

Set sovereign=True and pin a metro. The SDK then enforces it as a defense layer:

from volt import Volt, SovereigntyViolation

client = Volt(sovereign=True, pinned_metro="us-east-iad")
try:
    resp = client.chat.completions.create(
        model="llama-3.3-70b-instruct",
        messages=[{"role": "user", "content": "Summarize this contract."}],
    )
    print(resp.volt.tier, resp.volt.metro)   # verified before you see the data
except SovereigntyViolation:
    ...  # response payload is withheld from your code

Three layers of enforcement

1. Data plane — zero egress makes residency physical.
2. Control plane — your org's sovereignty profile pins tier, metro, and allowed catalogs.
3. SDK — every response is validated client-side; a mismatch raises and withholds the payload.

Attestation

Vault customers fetch a measured-boot attestation report per rack before deploying sensitive workloads:

voltctl attest --rack rack-iad-7