27/05/2026
“Sovereign cloud is not only about where the workload runs. It is about whether the provider still feels politically acceptable.”
That is what makes this discussion so interesting in Germany right now.
For some companies, AWS is no longer being compared only against Azure or Google Cloud.
It is being compared against Hetzner, OVHcloud, Deutsche Telekom, Vodafone, and other European options because trust has become part of the architecture decision.
But the adoption point matters too.
If a company can move quickly to AWS European Sovereign Cloud, it probably already had AWS skills, patterns, controls, and procurement in place.
So this may not be a clean “AWS vs Europe” debate.
It may be a more practical question: how do existing AWS customers reduce political, regulatory, and customer trust risk without rebuilding everything from scratch?
What is really driving sovereign cloud conversations in your organisation: regulation, customer pressure, provider trust, or the cost of changing platform? - with Malte Polley on Logicast Season 5 Episode 20: Extend DB, DevOps Agent & Data Sovereignty
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