Clever Edge

Bring the power of the cloud closer to your operations

Clever Edge is the distributed edge cloud hosting solution that brings the power of the cloud closer to your local infrastructures. Designed to process and secure data as close as possible to its source, it ensures resilience, performance, and compliance across all environments, even the most sensitive ones.

With Clever Edge, Clever Cloud leverages its Platform as a Service expertise to support organizations that require greater control, low latency, and strengthened technological autonomy.
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Why choose Clever Edge

Security, sovereignty, compliance

On-site processing and management of sensitive data, with native compliance with regulations → traduction fidèle et institutionnelle.

Complete PaaS experience

Automated deployment, monitoring, managed services, traceability, and energy consumption optimization

Guaranteed critical operations

Business continuity even under degraded conditions, thanks to local processing and low network dependency

Total flexibility

Run all your workloads—applications, containers, databases, virtual machines, or processes—in the cloud, on-premises, or at the edge.

A robust and sovereign architecture

Clever Edge operates thanks to the orchestrator and control plane developed by Clever Cloud. Unlike traditional approaches, it does not rely on Kubernetes: we install our orchestration technology directly on your machines, delivering the same experience as Clever Cloud’s public cloud, but closer to your infrastructures.

This architecture provides:

  • Flexible deployment: Clever Edge can be installed on your physical or virtual environments, or on partner clouds, depending on your needs.
  • Multi-workload compatibility: containers, PaaS applications, virtual machines, or system processes.
  • A unified control plane: automated deployment, monitoring, and updates managed from the Clever Cloud platform.
  • Clever Cloud managed services: integrated monitoring, security, updates, and traceability—without added complexity.

With this approach, Clever Edge brings the power and simplicity of Clever Cloud’s PaaS directly into your data centers, industrial sites, or isolated environments.

Clever AirGap:
maximum security

For ultra-sensitive environments, Clever Edge can be deployed in AirGap mode:
  • Installation and updates through pre-validated images;
  • Isolated execution, completely disconnected from the Internet;
  • Centralized management of deployments to your edge devices.
This model ensures total resilience and absolute control over the trust chain.
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Concrete use cases for industrials and strategic players

Clever Edge addresses the needs of industries where data must remain on-site, while still benefiting from the modern capabilities of edge cloud. Here are the most common customer use cases we support:

  • Industry and logistics: process automation, inventory management, and flow optimization.
  • Defense and security: deployment of sovereign environments with high levels of resilience and autonomy.
  • Public sector: secure hosting of sensitive applications in certified zones.
  • Manufacturing: deployment of API gateways and business applications close to operations, to reduce latency and streamline production.

Q&A – Clever Edge

What is Clever Edge?
Clever Edge is a distributed edge cloud solution that brings the power of the cloud closer to your local infrastructures to reduce latency, secure data, and ensure compliance.

Which environments are supported?
Clever Edge supports PaaS applications, containers, virtual machines, and system processes.

Can it be used in isolated environments?
Yes. With AirGap mode, Clever Edge can operate completely disconnected, with full control over updates and deployments.

Which sectors are already using Clever Edge?
Industry, defense, public sector, logistics, and manufacturing.

What are the main benefits?
Security, compliance, resilience, operational simplicity, and digital sovereignty.

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