Who really controls your data? The test of sovereign cloud

Sovereign cloud has become one of the most heavily used terms in enterprise technology.

Almost every major provider has gone to great lengths to market their version of it, promising that data is ‘residing locally’ or ‘ringfenced in Europe’, but the key question remains: what does true cloud sovereignty actually mean?

For governments, regulators and businesses handling sensitive workloads, distinguishing between what’s marketed as sovereign and what is sovereign in reality is vital.

The dominance of US hyperscalers in Europe makes this challenge even more pressing. Amazon Web Services, Microsoft Azure and Google Cloud together control more than two-thirds of the region’s cloud computing market, raising concerns about jurisdictional control and limits of so-called European cloud offerings ...