AWS launches European Sovereign Cloud with German subsidiaries and EU-resident operations—but CLOUD Act jurisdiction, US ownership, and closed-source architecture mean genuine sovereignty remains elusive Amazon Web Services has launched its European Sovereign Cloud, promising operations "entirely located within the EU, and physically and logically separate from other AWS Regions." The service offers 90 AWS services from dedicated German infrastructure, managed by EU-resident

How the US CLOUD Act creates compliance risks for EU businesses—and how Sovereign Sky's expertise helps navigate this complex regulatory landscape If your organisation must comply with the GDPR, you need to understand the US CLOUD Act. Passed in 2018, it allows US authorities to demand data from US-based providers, even when that data is stored in EU datacentres. This directly contradicts GDPR Article 48, which requires that foreign authorities obtain an international agreeme

Switzerland, Germany, and France lead Europe's open-source transition—eliminating vendor lock-in whilst reducing costs by 30-50%. Here's what enterprises must know about FOSS for genuine sovereignty. Switzerland now mandates all government-developed software be released as open source. Germany's Schleswig-Holstein cancelled 80% of Microsoft licences, migrating to Linux and LibreOffice. France integrates FOSS across public administration under Macron's digital sovereignty stra

Microsoft, AWS, Google, and Salesforce executives admit under oath and in court what their marketing denied: they cannot protect European data from US government access. Here's what enterprises must know. Microsoft's French Senate testimony, June 2025:  Anton Carniaux, General Manager of Microsoft France, testified under oath that he "cannot guarantee that data belonging to French citizens, even when hosted by Microsoft under a government procurement agreement, wouldn't be ha