A large Italian Public Administration
A direct, redundant multicloud access to Microsoft Azure and the leading public clouds, to support the migration to the Italian Region with full operational continuity.
Public Administration
Identity withheld at the client’s request
A large Italian Public Administration, operating across a wide territory with digital services for citizens and businesses, has begun migrating data and applications to the cloud. The project follows the cloud-first principle of the Italy Cloud Strategy: qualified environments, hosted in Italy, with the continuity of essential services as the central priority.
Sector
Public Administration
Territorial scope
Italy
Strategic direction
Cloud-first migration
The industry scenario
According to the Cloud Transformation Observatory of the Politecnico di Milano, in 2025 digital sovereignty is reshaping cloud strategies: 46% of large organisations are choosing hybrid and selective approaches, prioritising data control and residency on national territory, while the generalist “cloud first” approach falls to 32%.
Osservatorio Cloud Transformation, Politecnico di Milano · 2025
Challenge
A cloud migration with no interruptions
The Italy Cloud Strategy sets three guidelines for Public Administration — technological autonomy, control over data and resilience of digital services — to be pursued according to the cloud-first principle. In 2025 the push towards digital sovereignty made control over data location and the redundancy of the links to cloud providers’ regions even more central for public bodies. This administration was operating in the same scenario: it delivered essential services to citizens and businesses and already had direct access to the leading clouds, but over single, geographically distant paths. To consolidate that model it needed a redundant and scalable access, able to prepare the migration to the Italian Region without putting operational continuity at risk.
Areas of intervention
The areas in which the administration asked Retelit to intervene in order to make cloud access solid and scalable.
Multicloud connectivity
Direct, private and dedicated access to the leading public clouds, with no transit over the Internet.
Path redundancy
A second, independent access point, homed on a geographically distinct interconnection point.
Data residency and proximity
Direct connection to the public cloud’s Italian Region, for control over and proximity to the data.
Scalability and management
Scalable dedicated bandwidth and managed network equipment, with continuous operational oversight.
Retelit's solution
A direct, redundant multicloud access, managed end-to-end
Retelit built a private, dedicated connection to the leading public clouds, relying on its own interconnection infrastructure. A second access point, homed on a geographically distinct location, protects the services from the unavailability of a single node; the full-bandwidth connectivity is scalable on demand and continuously overseen.
Services activated and technologies
Multicloud connectivity
Cloud Connect / Cloud Diretto
A direct, private Layer 2 connection to Microsoft Azure and the other leading public clouds, without going through the Internet. The administration reaches the provider’s Italian Region through a dedicated access that enables peering between regions and prepares the migration of data onto national territory.
Interconnection
Avalon Campus
The interconnection is hosted in the Avalon Campus in Milan, the neutral hub where operators and cloud providers are homed. The second access to the cloud runs through a geographically distinct interconnection point: two independent paths that ensure continuity even if one of the nodes becomes unavailable.
Managed connectivity
National and International Transport
Connectivity is delivered at full bandwidth, with the ability to expand the capacity of each link on demand. The network equipment is managed by Retelit with continuous operational oversight, for an infrastructure that scales without new physical interventions.
Results
An infrastructure ready to grow
With the direct, redundant multicloud access integrated by Retelit, the administration approaches the migration to the public cloud with continuity, performance and room to grow.
Guaranteed continuity: two direct access points over independent, distinct paths, with no single point of failure towards the cloud.
Performance and security: traffic over a private, dedicated network, off the Internet, for faster and more protected access.
Immediate scalability: the capacity of each link expands on demand, with no new physical interventions.
Ready for the Italian Region: direct access that enables peering between regions and sets up the migration, with 24/7 oversight.
An approach that can be replicated in your sector
Discover how to build a direct, redundant and sovereign cloud access
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