Perspectives on European cloud sovereignty, migration strategy, and the evolving regulatory landscape.
2026-07-20 · 8 min read
France's Health Data Hub is moving from Microsoft Azure to Scaleway after assessing more than 350 technical requirements. Its six-year path shows healthcare leaders how to assess jurisdiction, security, operational fit and reversibility before choosing a cloud.
Read the full article2026-07-16 · 3 min read
Airbus selected Scaleway for sovereign cloud workloads, while EU experts named compute and energy as Europe's urgent AI priorities. Germany's Soofi S put sovereign infrastructure to work, and Exoscale launched dedicated AI inference in European data centres.
Read the full article2026-07-14 · 7 min read
The European Commission believes AWS and Azure should become gatekeepers under the Digital Markets Act. What that could change for data access, interoperability and cloud contracts - and why regulation will not make a deeply connected cloud estate portable overnight.
Read the full article2026-07-09 · 3 min read
Brussels set the pace this fortnight: AWS and Azure were designated gatekeepers under the Digital Markets Act, and the Cloud and AI Development Act was formally proposed. Scality and OVHcloud launched a sovereign storage platform, and US security vendors joined the AWS European Sovereign Cloud.
Read the full article2026-07-07 · 6 min read
From 12 January 2027, EU law bans the fees cloud providers charge customers who leave, including data egress. What the Data Act's switching rules actually guarantee, where the real migration costs remain, and how the date changes the arithmetic for a company weighing a move now.
Read the full article2026-06-30 · 8 min read
Euro-Office launched as Europe's open-source answer to Microsoft Office, and within days LibreOffice's foundation called it a de facto ally of Microsoft. The dispute is a useful lens on how much sovereignty a European office suite settles, and how much still rests on the file format.
Read the full article2026-06-24 · 3 min read
Sovereignty moved from legislation to procurement this week: the Swedish military picked Evroc for a classified 'combat cloud', French start-up Policloud signed a €580M deal for distributed AI compute across five countries, and KPN brought STACKIT's sovereign cloud to the Netherlands.
Read the full article2026-06-22 · 6 min read
Most leaders treat US cloud GDPR compliance as a question their legal team answered once and filed away. The rulings of the past year show the answer is conditional and keeps moving, and that it belongs to procurement as much as to lawyers, well before your next renewal.
Read the full article2026-06-18 · 3 min read
After the June 3 sovereignty package, a quieter week turned on the economics and credibility of European cloud: Hetzner repriced its server range, Broadcom's survey put data sovereignty ahead of compliance, and the sovereignty-washing debate sharpened around what a sovereign label guarantees.
Read the full article2026-06-16 · 7 min read
On 12 June 2026 a single US directive switched off an AI model for every foreign national. The shut-off is one of several levers US law holds over American technology used in Europe - from the CLOUD Act to sanctions. Here is how the machinery works, and what quietly removes it.
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